Steven Yeun Makes Oscars History as First Asian American Best Actor Nominee

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Shirley Chung, a Top Chef finalist and owner of Culver City's Ms. Chi Cafe, recalls an incident last year in which a group of diners made her staff sanitize their outdoor table — twice.

The Office actress Kat Ahn has criticised the show’s portrayal of Asian American women.Ahn starred in the hit sitcom as Amy in the season three episode ‘A Benihana Christmas’ and has since called the story arc “#problematic”.In the episode, Steve Carell’s character Michael Scott invites two Asian waitresses from a popular Japanese steakhouse (which he calls “Asian Hooters”) to the Dunder Mifflin Christmas party.Scott marks one of the two women with ink in order to tell them apart, and then turns

Meghan McCain is once again catching flack online.

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Meghan McCain is once again catching flack online.

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.

Full Metal Jacket brought us the phrases “me love you long time,” “me so horny,” and “me sucky sucky,” which are still used to objectify and harass Asian women today. I was a sophomore in high school when Memoirs of a Geisha was released, and men saw it as a license to cast any Asian woman in their own geisha fantasies.

Rihanna, Pharrell Williams, Ariana Grande, Joe Jonas, Mindy Kaling, LeBron James and more have taken to social media in the wake of such incidents and have provided resources for people who want to help.The celebrity attention is in response to a string of shootings involving three Atlanta-area spas, which took place on Tuesday, per .

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Olivia Munn says that Asian Americans are being targeted, responding to the Atlanta shooting where a white gunman killed eight people, six of whom were Asian American. The Love Wedding Repeat and The Newsroom actress spoke to MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace about the rise in anti-Asian violence amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Joe Jonas, Mindy Kaling, LeBron James and more have taken to social media in the wake of such incidents and have provided resources for people who want to help.The celebrity attention is in response to a string of shootings involving three Atlanta-area spas, which took place on Tuesday, per .

Lulu Wang, Olivia Munn, Mindy Kaling and Daniel Dae Kim are among the celebrities who have spoken out in support of the Asian American community following shootings in Atlanta. Eight people were killed in shootings at a number of Georgia massage parlours on Tuesday (16 March), a majority of them women of Asian descent.

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As the nominations were announced for the 93rd Academy Awards, actors like Steven Yeun and Riz Ahmed made history. 9 actors of colour received an Oscar nomination on Monday, this was certainly a big milestone for the Academy after its years of attempts to diversify the Award ceremony.

A pair of actors received historic best actor Oscar nominations on Monday.Riz Ahmed, nominated for his role in The Sound of Metal, became the first Muslim actor nominated in the category, whileMinari's Steven Yeun became the first Asian American actor to receive a best actor nomination. The nomination of Ahmed, the British Pakistani rapper and actor, follows two wins by Mahershala Ali in the supporting actor category for Moonlight (2016) and Greenbook (2018).