By Arturo R. García
Yesterday Channel APA revealed the roster for the debut of Ktown, a reality show that, as you can see, will be unique in casting, if not tone: this bunch of presumably, uh, rambunctious young people is exclusively Asian-American.
From left to right, that’s Young Lee, Jennifer Field, Joe Cha, Scarlet Chan, Violet Kim, [...]

By Guest Contributor Ninoy Brown, originally published at FOBBDeep

Recently, a personal mission of mine has been to scour for Pinoy funk.  Music from the Philippines, as well as from Filipinos living abroad.  Having been exposed to more funk recently, since I’ve surrounded myself with lockers and boogaloo style dancers, I’ve been wanting to expand beyond [...]

By Site Lead Arturo R. García

DC Comics went back to the racial well this week in an interview with Comic Book Resources, which featured this exchange between CBR News Editor Kiel Phiegly and DC co-publisher Dan Didio:
CBR: There’s been a lot of discussion – and a lot of angry discussion, I’d say – coming out [...]

By Guest Contributor Jen, originally published at Disgrasian
Spoiler Alert + Any use of inappropriate cultural terms or conflation with the original movie is entirely intentional.
The Karate Kid (Jaden Smith) and his Mom (Taraji Henson) are leaving Detroit. Lest you think this is a single black mom/deadbeat dad scenario, we’re told upfront that the Karate Kid’s [...]

By Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man

Award-winning graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, author of American Born Chinese is a huge fan of Nickelodeon’s Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series. So when he found out the live-action movie adaptation would feature an all-white principal cast, he became one of the more vocal voices against [...]

by Guest Contributor Bao Phi, originally published at the Star-Tribune’s Your Voices

Let me tell you, I have an almost supernatural (some would say neurotic) capacity for remembering the most embarrassing moments in my life.  Walking into a women’s bathroom by mistake when I was about 7 years old and lost at the mall, crying for [...]

by Latoya Peterson

This weekend, it appears I have a date with my television since two major series are happening in May.
Last night, I just so happened to be flipping through the channels and landed on TCM playing “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” -but during a commercial break, there was an actress (Irene Bedard?) discussing [...]

Hosted by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García

Not to say “Course Correction” was perfect, but it was definitely pretty good. If this is to be FlashForward’s only season – and there’s still a chance it might not be – then at least the creative team appears headed toward a stronger finish than we could’ve expected. In [...]

by Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man
Here’s a front page Philadelphia Inquirer story on South Philadelphia High School ninth grader Lindi Liu, who was assaulted in a bathroom last month. He was exiting a bathroom stall when another student kicked the door inward, bashing him in the head. A month [...]

Hosted by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García

He smokes, he sings, he stares down paranoids … “Let No Man Put Asunder” was all about Demetri. Kind of odd, in that an ep named after something you hear at weddings focused nearly exclusively on the groom, but what the heck – the Roundtable didn’t mind him being [...]

by Guest Contributor Sumeia Williams, originally published at Ethnically Incorrect Daughter
The doors slid open to another frost covered morning as I left work. I took a deep breath and shivered as the crisp air invaded my lungs. In contrast, the sky defied the dead cold with its deep red and orange streaks. [...]

by Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man

This is an awesome Wall Street Journal story out of Portland on the Minidoka Swing Band, a tribute band commemorating internment camps and the Japanese American teenagers who enjoyed swing music behind barbed wire during World War II: A Tribute Band Like No Other [...]

By Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man

Last night, I filled out my Census form. Have you filled yours out yet? Here’s a fun PSA just launched by our friends at Arowana Films, who try to break it down in a way people can understand: it all comes down to $$$.
Asian [...]

by Latoya Peterson
Please note, this is part five of a multi-part series on the Lifting As We Climb: Women of Color and Wealth report released by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development. Please carefully read part one and review our comment moderation policy before participating in the comments.
Over the course of the Women of [...]

By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García

Thanks to Racialicious reader Tomas for tipping us off to this: this May, Dynamite Entertainment’s Green Hornet comic-book line will focus on the titular hero’s companion in Kato: Way Of The Ninja. The Kato character has been part of Hornet canon since the character’s beginnings in the radio era, but [...]