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Two Asian Female Directors Selected for NBC’s Female Forward Diversity Initiative
From more than 1,000 applicants, Asian American directors Christine Swanson and Heather Jack have emerged as two of 10 finalists of the inaugural class of NBC’s Female Forward program. […]
HBO Is Calling For Its 2019 APA Visionaries
HBO is calling for short films from Asian American and Pacific Islander filmmakers for its third APA Visionaries competition, the network announced on Wednesday. The theme for this year’s […]
Veteran Character and Voice Actor Denis Akiyama Dies at 66
Veteran actor Denis Akiyama, who was also well-known for his voice roles, has died at age 66 following a battle with cancer. Akiyama, who was Japanese Canadian, was seen […]
Los Angeles Honors Female Asian American Activists
To close out Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Los Angeles honored Tuesday a group of female activists and advocates whose portraits have hung in a gallery inside City Hall throughout […]
Q&A With HBO APA Visionaries Winners: ‘What is Home?’
A child’s voice on a cell phone, the space between two doors, sharing a tub of bubbles with a sister — that’s what home means for the winners of […]
APAHM 2018: Workers’ Rights Advocate Aquilina Soriano-Versoza On Community Empowerment
Aquilina Soriano-Versoza, who’s dedicated her social justice career to bettering the lives of low-wage domestic workers and immigrants in the Filipino community, was once angry. She was angry seeing […]
APAHM 2018: Sonya Passi’s Mission to Help Domestic Violence Survivors Find Financial Independence
Sonya Passi has seen it happen too many times: domestic abuse survivors finally building up the courage to leave their abusers, only to be forced, because of financial insecurity, […]
APAHM 2018: Comedian Jenny Yang Is Done Being a ‘Good Asian’
Jenny Yang’s story could easily double as the premise of an Asian American sitcom: She grew up in a diverse neighborhood in Torrance, California, to Taiwanese immigrant parents. After […]
APAHM 2018: Activist Sahar Pirzada’s Fight Against Gendered Islamophobia
Sahar Pirzada had one thing to say when she found out the Singaporean government was using religion, especially Islam, as an excuse to drag their feet on sexual education […]
APAHM 2018: Artist Phung Huynh Explores the ‘In-Betweennness of Being Asian American’
Phung Huynh, a Los Angeles-based artist, centers her work on what she calls the “in-betweenness of being Asian American.” Often, art is evaluated and examined from a Western paradigm. […]
APAHM 2018: Anna Akana Tackles Mental Health Awareness and API Representation
Actress, writer, comedian and YouTube personality Anna Akana has valuable advice for aspiring Asian American entertainers trying to make it in Los Angeles: “Never live in Santa Monica! The […]
#TogetherWeSpeak: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month 2018
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, the City of Los Angeles and Kore Asian Media are highlighting API women who have used their perspectives and voices to […]
APAHM 2018: ACLU Jails Monitor Esther Lim Pushes for Criminal Justice System Reform
Esther Lim says she can’t forget the kids she met in juvenile correction facilities in which, as a grad student, she worked as an intern interested in pursuing criminal […]
APAHM 2018: Mia Yamamoto On Her Unending Fight for the Poor and Marginalized
For Mia Yamamoto, courage is telling the truth. Her life serves as testament. Born in a Japanese internment camp in Poston, Arizona, Yamamoto — born Michael — combated racial […]
