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5.05.2019

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Write Our Stories
This Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, NBC News is highlighting some of the efforts by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to write their stories back into history.

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Co-workers keep mixing up people of color in the office. It’s more than a mistake.
When people can’t tell their co-workers of color apart, it's a constant reminder that you're an outsider.

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She’s Asian and female. But she’s not me.
"If you just cringed, chuckled or rolled your eyes, I’ve been there. These instances are rarely intentional, and can be more embarrassing for the person who made the error than for me. Sometimes it’s genuinely funny. Other times, it’s just awkward. It took me years to realize that it also stings."

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How Chinese American Women Changed U.S. Labor History
Women workers and organizers remember staging the massive 1982 Garment Strike in Chinatown

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If ABC Cancels Fresh Off the Boat, It Cancels the Most Adorable Show on TV
Fresh Off the Boat is the most adorable show on television -- "the rare sitcom that manages to be cute without ever turning cloying." The show awaits word from ABC about a sixth season.

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13 Asian American & Pacific Islander Authors On The First Time They Saw Themselves In A Book
13 Asian American and Pacific Islander authors talk about the first time they saw themselves in a book.

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What It’s Like To Be Asian In A TV Writers Room
To celebrate the Asian writers behind some of your favorite television shows, Bustle spoke to a handful of gamechangers rewriting the script in Hollywood right now.

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'Warrior': Inside the Episode That Pits Kung-Fu Fighters Against Gunslinging Outlaws
Director Kevin Tancharoen and writer Kenneth Lin discuss fight logistics, representation, and identity in the latest groundbreaking episode of Cinemax's action drama Warrior.

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Meet Marvel's Secret Weapon: 'Avengers: Endgame' Executive Producer Trinh Tran
As an executive producer on The Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, Marvel's Trinh Tran knows a thing or two about wrangling superheroes, on and off screen.

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Ming-Na Wen, Nancy Kwan Talk Hollywood's New "Awareness" on Diversity: "It's Opening Up"
Reuniting for the first time in 18 years, the former ER co-stars discuss their mother-daughter dynamic and Kwan's "amazing connection" to Crazy Rich Asians and each major studio film with an all-Asian cast.