Tuesday 25th July 2017,
Photo by Robert Couse-Baker
By Ed Diokno
Views from the Edge
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
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
By Ed Diokno
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
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
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
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
Ex Describes Financier as Self-Hating Asian in Explosive Trial 
Fashion Spread Accused of Using Racist Imagery 
Study: East Asians Have A Different Measure of Success than Whites 
Chasing Lovely – Two Hapa Girls Sing about Things We Don’t Talk About 
Some Still Express Serious Doubts about Victim in Racist Airbnb Incident 
Ally said:
RE: First Asian American signs with Jay Z's Entertainment Company: Good for him! And am glad he never changed who he was nor ...
The other said:
RE: Ex describes Financier as self-hating Asian in Explosive Trial: You know he's the type of guy who projects his self hate ...
Michael S. Teruya said:
RE:Chasing Lovely: Two Hapa Girls Sing about Things We Don't Talk About: Hey, not all Asian-Americans are able to lead the fi ...
The other said:
RE: Mea Culpa: Article by Asian American White supremacist Likely Fabricated: Yeah, the article hit every anti AW talking poi ...
Richard Chen said:
RE: Mea Culpa: Article by Asian American White Supremacist likely Fabricated: Excellent journalistic credibility here so than ...
doug chang said:
RE:Fashion spread accused of using Racist imagery: **has Asian sellout wife** ...
Joe said:
RE: Of course, his wife is Asian and thinks it's okay, so that must mean all Asians should be ok with it. ...
pck01 said:
RE: Fashion spread accused of using racist imagery: After reading the response from Billy Kid Studio lemme just say this: Wow ...