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Posted Thursday 7/30/20 at 5:59AM EDT
Did Good Morning America's Amy Robach mistake Asian-American comedian Kristina Wong for Ali Wong?
Robach interviewed Kristina Wong on Good Morning America's GMA3: What You Need to Know on Tuesday, discussing the comedian's Auntie...
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Daredevil's Peter Shinkoda: Former Marvel TV boss said "nobody gives a sh*t" about Asian people
Shinkoda, who played the villainous Nobu Yoshioka on the Marvel Netflix series, made the allegation against former Marvel Television head...
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Posted Wednesday 7/08/20 at 2:50AM EDT
Netflix is releasing a documentary short on the impact of The Baby-Sitters Club character Claudia Kishi
The Claudia Kishi Club, premiering Friday, features Asian-American creatives paying tribute to the "iconic, stereotype-busting" character, who's played by Momona...
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Posted Thursday 7/02/20 at 2:50AM EDT
Revisiting Survivor's 2006 "race wars" season
Survivor: Cook Islands premiered to controversy in fall 2006 by dividing 20 castaways into four tribes by race and ethnicity:...
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Alison Brie is "truly sorry" for voicing BoJack Horseman's Vietnamese-American character
"In hindsight, I wish that I didn't voice the character of Diane Nguyen," Brie wrote on Instagram of the Vietnamese-American...
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg reiterates his regret over hiring a white actress to play a Vietnamese character
Bob-Waksberg revisited his evolution on the Diane Nguyen character, played by Alison Brie, in a late-night Twitter thread on Tuesday...
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Tina Fey has a problematic history with race that goes beyond 30 Rock's blackface
When Fey apologized and pulled four 30 Rock episodes on Monday over their use of blackface, some pointed out that...
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Posted Tuesday 6/23/20 at 7:07PM EDT
Amazon picks up Asian-American comedy Nancy Wu Done It co-written by Jessica Henwick
Iron Fist and Game of Thrones alum Henwick is teaming with former The Flash writer Kai Yu Wu on a...
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has outlasted all other Marvel shows by constantly reinventing itself
The Marvel series kicked off its seventh and final season on Wednesday as a period drama set in 1930s New...
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Posted Tuesday 5/26/20 at 12:15PM EDT
Fresh Off the Boat and Kim’s Convenience casts are teaming for a virtual table read benefit
The groundbreaking Asian-American sitcom and the groundbreaking Asian-Canadian sitcom will celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month on Saturday with a...
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Posted Friday 5/15/20 at 5:10AM EDT
Jimmy O. Yang hopes his standup comedy subverts Asian stereotypes
Yang, who recently dropped his first-ever special on Amazon Prime, tells The Last Laugh podcast of his comedy: “A year...
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Posted Wednesday 5/13/20 at 12:52AM EDT
NBC News to host a virtual town hall tackling anti-Asian racism
The “United Against Hate” town hall will be streamed Wednesday on NBC Asian America’s site as well as Twitter, Facebook...
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Posted Tuesday 5/12/20 at 1:48AM EDT
PBS celebrates an unsung history in documentary series Asian Americans
The five-part documentary series that premieres Monday, narrated by Daniel Dae Kim and Tamlyn Tomita, spans 150 years.
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Posted Monday 5/11/20 at 3:43PM EDT
Daniel Dae Kim says sharing his coronavirus diagnosis opened his eyes to anti-Asian racism
Kim, a narrator on the PBS Asian Americans documentary series premiering tonight, tells The New York Times he was "exposed"...
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Posted Thursday 4/23/20 at 2:53AM EDT
John Cho: "Coronavirus reminds Asian-Americans like me that our belonging is conditional"
The Cowboy Bebop star penned an Op-Ed for the Los Angeles Times Wednesday decrying the anti-Asian racism that has surfaced...
