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Denver Mayor Mike Johnston only had to travel 4 miles from his downtown office to attend the Saturday, Feb. 10, Lunar New Year celebration at the Far East Center. The close-knit Luong family, which has run the food-and-retail complex at Federal Boulevard and Alameda Avenue since opening it in 1988, traveled many thousands more. “Back in the (late 1970s) there were not a lot of resources for immigrants and refugees in Denver,” said Mimi Luong, whose family fled North Vietnam for a refugee camp in Guam, and eventually,…

The leading Asian American caucus in Congress has accused Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) of “racist” questioning of TikTok’s CEO at a congressional hearing this week.  In a hearing Wednesday, leaders from across big tech were summoned to testify on the issue of online child safety. In addition to TikTok, executives from Meta, X, Snap and Discord were accused by lawmakers of failing to protect children from online abuse and exploitation.  In the hearing, Cotton repeatedly asked TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew about…

Olivia Rodrigo, Charles Melton, and Past Lives star Greta Lee are among the winners honored on the 2024 Gold List, which highlights outstanding work by Asian Pacific creatives in film. Voted on by members of the advocacy groups Gold House and CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment), the fourth-annual Gold List was released Wednesday, with the critically-acclaimed Past Lives leading the pack with four wins, including Best Picture, Best Director for Celine Song, and Best Performance in a Leading Role for…

While attending UC San Diego from 2015 to 2019, Christina Roh noticed that “the outdoors wasn’t seemingly as accessible to the AAPI community. A lot of Asian students didn’t seem as inclined to wanting to experience beaches and hikes as other outdoorsy friends.”Roh, 25, felt passionately that her peers were missing out, so when she graduated and returned to her hometown of Los Angeles, she looked for organizations mobilizing Asian American communities to get outside. “It was only Outdoor Asian,” she says. “And they…

Editor’s note: This is a translation of a story about how the crime-tracking app Citizen has been giving away free subscriptions to elderly Asians in the Bay Area. Find the English language version here. 本文是与普利策中心的人工智能问责网络合作撰写的。 当外面天黑的时候，约瑟芬·赵（Josephine Zhao）哪怕只是走几个街区就能回到旧金山的家，有时也会多叫一双“眼睛”——字面意义的眼睛。 赵打开手机上的Citizen App，通过一个名为“实时监控”的功能，与该平台的一个客服人员建立联系。而该平台也可以通过网络追踪到赵的GPS位置，客服只要点击另一个按钮，就可以得到打开她手机摄像头的授权。这样该平台就可以“看到我所看到的东西”，赵说。通常来说，她甚至不会和客服人员进行对话，但她知道“这时有人和我一起走”，这会让赵感到安心一些。…

As they did with this month’s Black History Month, today Marvel revealed details for the publisher’s plans to celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by spotlighting some of its most prominent AAPI super-heroes as well as acclaimed Asian and AAPI talent from throughout the comics industry in new stories and variant covers. This year’s Marvel AAPI Heritage Month variant covers were crafted by best-selling cover artist Inhyuk Lee and depict some of Marvel’s brightest new stars…

“Citizen, and the premium version, is not the panacea. It will not fix the world’s problems. It will not stop crime from happening all over the world. It’s not that,” Chandler says. “But it is a very powerful way for marginalized communities to make their voices heard.”  “Unfortunately, they don’t have a Chinese helper”  “While the idea of Citizen is brilliant … I do come to this with a healthy dose of skepticism because of the uniqueness of our community,” says OCA’s Kosai. “One of the things that I’m always thinking…

There's a Sony/Amazon Prime Silk TV series on the way. So, to get ahead of the game, Marvel is launching a new Silk comic book.Yesterday's Spider-Man #5 from Marvel Comics saw a version of the world in which Peter Parker did not become Spider-Man – but Cindy Moon still became Silk, and didn't allow herself to be held in isolation. Now, for Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May, Emily Kim and Ig Guara will be giving Cindy Moon, her own mini-series again, with Silk #1. There's something rotten in Los…

DC has just confirmed Spirit World, City Boy and The Vigil all for May 2023 as six-issue series with Asian lead characters, for May's AAPI Heritage Month.Bleeding Cool previously covered rumours about Spirit World, City Boy and The Vigil becoming new series from DC Comics, and DC has now just confirmed them all for May 2023, ahead of the release of their solicits and solicitations as six-issue series with Asian lead characters, for May's AAPI Heritage Month and the Dawn Of DC publishing promotion. We also gave added…

| Fresh off Pride Month and Asian-American Heritage Month, filmmaker Quentin Lee is launching his debut YA Science Fiction graphic novel Mystery Brothers at San Diego Comic-Con from July 21st to the 24th. The 4-issue graphic novel is the first Asian-American YA Sci-Fi graphic novel to be distributed in partnership with Red 5 Comics. "Mystery Brothers" cover art: Red 5 Comics. Set in New York, Mystery Brothers features a pair of Chinese American 13-year-old half-brothers – one of whom may or may not be completely human –…