How Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Echo Hollywood’s Failings

"Baptize" by Atlanta rap supergroup Spillage Village was one of our favorite songs of 2020 and appeared on Spilligion, a standout full-length project from that year, as well. Out of the blue, Spillage Village has decided to share a remix for "Baptize." Spillage member Hollywood JB appears on the track, as does Deante Hitchcock (who may or may not be a member of Spillage Village himself), Maryland MC IDK, and New York psychedelic rap duo Flatbush Zombies.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAfter the installation of restrictive new voting laws in Georgia, Hollywood seems fractured in response to new measures that affect marginalized voters in a state where dozens of film and TV projects are shot.Tyler Perry, who just spent $250 million on an Atlanta-based production facility, called for a Department of Justice investigation into the laws this week.

On Thursday, CAA kicked off the month of April with the CAA Amplify Town Hall to address the surge of violence against Asians and Asian Americans. These acts of violence and harassment have been on the forefront in the past week with the Atlanta shootings and the most most recent attack in New York City where a man brutally attacked 65-year-old Vilma Kari while saying racist remarks.

Violence against Asian Americans has risen dramatically over the past year. The coalition Stop AAPI Hate has tracked nearly 4,000 incidents of discrimination over the past year alone, as NPR reported earlier this month, though experts and advocates stress that the actual number is likely much higher.

UPDATED with video: Tonight on Saturday Night Live, Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che spent a great deal of time talking about gun control, in the wake of recent mass shootings in Atlanta, GA and Boulder, CO.

renewed outcry following the shootings at an Atlanta spa, the former “Tonight Show” host expressed his regret over his racist comments during a Zoom call with Guy Aoki — leader of the activist group Media Action Network for Asian Americans. Leno’s offensive jokes prompted MANAA to undergo a nearly 15-year-long campaign to pressure NBC to cut ties with him.

Jay Leno is stepping forward to take responsibility.

Ken Jeong has donated $50,000 (£36,500) to the families of victims of last week’s shootings in Atlanta. Eight people died during attacks at three massage parlours in the Georgia city on Tuesday (16 March), with a 21-year-old man being arrested.

Ken Jeong is helping with the healing process after so much suffering.

“My initial reaction to the attack in Atlanta was really shock and disbelief,” Margaret Cho says when speaking EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife, one week after the vile shootings that left eight people – six of whom were women of Asian decent – dead.

Meghan McCain is apologizing for her past comments about COVID-19.

a rampage across area massage parlors staffed primarily by Asian women, leaving eight people dead. “I am proud to be Asian,” the award-winning Canadian-American actress, 49, declared during a surprise appearance at a “Stop Asian Hate” protest in Oakland, Pennsylvania this Saturday.“Pittsburgh, I am so happy and proud to be here with you, and thank you to all the organizers for organizing this just to give us an opportunity to be together and to stand together and to feel each other,” the

On March 16, a white man traveled to three Atlanta area spas and took the lives of Soon C. Park, Hyun J.

Sandra Oh is speaking out against all of the hate and violence towards the Asian community.

Sandra Oh is speaking out just days after eight people were killed in the deadly shooting at three Atlanta-area spas.

Sandra Oh gave an impassioned speech at a Stop Asian Hate march yesterday (March 20), telling the crowd that she was “proud to be Asian”.The protest was held in Pittsburgh after eight people – many of whom were Asian – were killed in Atlanta last week (March 18) and as cases of hate crimes against Asian people continue to rise worldwide.The Killing Eve actor addressed the crowd at the march with a megaphone, saying: “For many of us in our community, this is the first time we are even able to

Amber Ruffin is using her platform to highlight America’s “long and well-documented” record of bigotry against Asian people.

Cher is blaming former U.S. President Donald Trump‘s rhetoric about the Asian American community for leading to the recent attacks in Atlanta, which left six Asian women dead.