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2.20.2023

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This comedian just won a $550,000 prize. Up next: A boundary-pushing Culver City show
Part of the world may have moved on from COVID-19, but performance artist Kristina Wong is reliving the worst of the pandemic night after night as part of her solo show, "Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord."

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Chinatown's Hidden Poverty: How a Big Family Struggles To Survive in a Tiny Room
For the Yus, simple survival in San Francisco while struggling with poverty is filled with challenges, but the harsher question is whether they will ever find a way out of their one room SRO and into a home of their own.

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While Florida targets Black history, Texas Republicans plan to make life miserable for Asian Americans
If Texas' proposed SB147 is enacted, the bill would ban citizens from China, Russia, North Korea and Iran from buying property or real estate in Texas. At least 11 other states are considering similar legislation.

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Letters from the Japanese incarceration camp at Santa Anita
Ted Fujioka was 17 years old when he was forced into an incarceration camp during World War II, and he wrote letters to a high school teacher. Decades later, those letters made it back to Ted's nephew Darrell Kunitomi, historian for the Los Angeles Times.

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How 'Broker' and 'Return to Seoul' reveal hard truths about Korean adoption
Two critically acclaimed films about South Korean adoption were recently released depicting different sides of the adoption story: Broker and Return to Seoul. To better understand how these films speak to real-life adoptees, Jae-Ha KIm talked to Korean academics, human rights experts, and adoptees.

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Sandra Oh's Sense of Purpose
Sandra Oh discusses Hollywood survival skills, winning the lottery, and her interest in telling “messy" Asian American stories.

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Portraying Asian Americans Positively and the “Messiness That is Life in Any Community"
When Kathryn Ma wrote her new novel The Chinese Groove, she said it felt risky to write a Chinese character who was behaving badly.