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4.10.2022

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One Garment's Journey Through History
The evolution of the traditional Korean hanbok is a lens into the history of the country, which is now being traced in the series Pachinko.

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Asian Americans are having 'the talk' about racism for the first time - with their parents
The rise in anti-Asian hate, fueled by misconceptions about the pandemic's origins, has exposed generational divides in how Asian Americans view racism.

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Asian American wrongfully accused of spying recounts damage of racial profiling
"My lifetime of outstanding scientific work was destroyed. And my entire life was shattered."

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Experts: Asian population overcount masks community nuances
Advocates and academics believe the overcounting of the Asian population by 2.6% in the 2020 Census likely masks great variation in who was counted among different Asian communities in the U.S., and could signal that biracial and multiracial residents identified as Asian in larger numbers than in the past.

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The Mysterious Man Who Built (and Then Lost) Little Tokyo
The remarkable hidden history of Tony Yoshida, who transformed a single block in New York City, helped start the cocktail revolution -- and inspired John Belushi to become a samurai.

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Kim’s Video Survives at Alamo Drafthouse
Youngman Kim explains to IndieWire his strange journey from growing up on an Air Force base in Korea to becoming the proprietor of a legendary movie collection.

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'Everything Everywhere All At Once' Gives Us The Asian Woman Hero We Need
"In this time of elevated anti-Asian hate, we need the fully human -- and badass Evelyn Wang to uplift Asian women in the diaspora and help all audiences identify and empathize with Asian women."

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Ke Huy Quan: From Short Round to Romantic Lead in Just Four Long Decades
A child star in the 1980s, Ke Huy Quan hit a dry patch and turned to stunt work in the 2000s. Now he has returned to acting in a part that blends his action and drama chops.

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The one role out of more than 500 that's stuck with James Hong
93-year-old Hollywood legend James Hong, who appears in Everything Everywhere All At Once, talks about just how far Asian American representation has come.

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Meet the self-trained martial artists who fought their way from YouTube to Everything Everywhere...
Why Hollywood filmmakers are battling to employ brothers Andy and Brian Le.

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Next Big Thing: 'Pachinko' Star Minha Kim on Bringing History to Life
The relative newcomer Minha Kim drew on her grandmother's memories to play a Korean woman living under Japanese imperialism in Apple TV+'s epic new series Pachinko.

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How Sandra Oh found common ground in the moms of 'Turning Red’ and ‘Umma’
Sandra Oh talks about the common mother-daughter themes that drew her to take on two very different projects, the horror drama Umma and Disney/Pixar's animated feature Turning Red.