#HollywoodSoWhite: Report says Hollywood Has Mostly a Black & White view of America

Photo by Robert Couse-Baker

By Ed Diokno
Views from the Edge

Buzz Feed Mimics Vanity Fair Cover with Asian Americans

Asian American Buzzfeed video producers mimicked Vanity Fair’s Hollywood cover.

By Ed Diokno

You know those iconic Vanity Fair covers this time of year? Academy Awards time? The Hollywood covers usually feature a bunch of movie stars in full makeup, hair perfectly coiffed and dressed to the nines. They look fabulous and other worldly.

The … Read more

Blog: A Year of Activism and Protest

By Ed Diokno
 
It would be easy to describe the year as an awful year with the highlight – or, lowlight, depending on your point of view – being the election of Donald Trump.
 
But something was happening among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders that might make 2016 a year to relish. The … Read more

Blog: The Uncertain Future of Race & Politics

By Ed Diokno

What’s Next After the Oscars Diversity Controversy?

Janet Yang, William Yu and Tamlyn Tomita (L-R) sit on the Oscars panel at the Asian American Journalists Association convention in Las Vegas

By Louis Chan
AsAmNews National Correspondent

A panel of Asian American Hollywood veterans and the creator of #StarringJohnCho campaign expressed optimism that the future is brighter for Asian American representation in Hollywood.… Read more

Blog: Academy Apologizes for Chris Rock Skit at Oscars

Chris Rock’s Asian joke fell flat

By Louis Chan
AsAmNews National Correspondent

Prompted by a sharply worded letter by 25 Asian American members of the Academy about the “perpetuation of racist stereotypes” about Asians, the group behind the Oscars has apologized for a skit by Chris Rock and jokes made by Sacha Baren Cohen during … Read more

Blog: #HollywoodSoWhite – The incredible ‘whiteness’ of being

Hollywood has a long history of ‘yellow face’ with some pretty big names taking part including, from left: Marlon Brando, John Wayne and Mickey Rooney. Can you name the films they were in where they played Asians? (For answers, see below.)

By Ed Diokno

I can’t wait until Chris Rock comes on stage to host … Read more

Study Finds Hollywood is Mostly White

Comprehensive Annenberg Report on Diversity

By Louis Chan
AsAmNews National Correspondent

A new study released by the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism found that just 28.3% of all speaking roles across 414 films, television and digital episodes in 2014 -2015 were from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

“This is no mere diversity problem. This … Read more