BTS Breaks Another Record While Eating Spicy Wings
BTS has made a triumphant return as the biggest music act in the world. But how are the members of BTS -- j-hope, Jin, SUGA, RM, V, Jimin, and Jung Kook -- going to be with spicy food? BTS takes on the wings of death and discusses the process of making new music, what it’s like the morning after performances, the secret to the perfect tteokbokki, how to play “369,” and the best anime songs of all time.
HASAN MINHAJ on Comedy, the immigrant experience, and why America’s in its “janky era"
IMO with Michelle Obama & Craig Robinson welcomes comedian Hasan Minhaj, who talks about growing up Indian American Muslim in northern California and the immigrant experience as it stands today. He also opens up about fatherhood and asks Mrs. Obama and Craig for parenting advice. Plus, he explains why magicians are more impressive than comedians, and why clowns are the least respected of the bunch.
Rapper Dumbfoundead unapologetically represents K-town in memoir 'SPIT'
Koreatown-raised entertainer Dumbfoundead, aka Jonathan Park, tells it straight: “I don’t think I’m just Korean or Korean American. I’m more Koreatown than both of those labels... This is the culture I grew up in, in the neighborhood, and that’s what made me who I am. If I didn’t grow up in a neighborhood that proudly had Korean letters on menus and signs and I could be unapologetically Korean, I would not be able to battle rap in confidence and be able to have thick skin to fight opponents verbally."
The Curious Case of Afong Moy: Asian Womanhood and National Belonging In the U.S.
Historians believe that the first Chinese woman to appear publicly in the United States was a young woman called Afong Moy, who was imported as an exotic attraction in 1834. From spectacle to exclusion, her story reveals how Asian women have long been exoticized, surveilled and denied full belonging in the American imagination and the law.
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