Tag: AAPIHeritageMonth
- Antioch Chinatown Memorialized – AAPI Heritage Month ()
In 2021 the city of Antioch, a small city on the San Joaquin-Sacramento River that empties into the San Francisco Bay, remembered the sad history of it’s relationship with Chinese people in the 1800s. Like many cities across the West, Antioch had a Chinatown. Chinese men had come to America as contract labor, to work […]
- KTown Cowboys – AAPI Heritage Month ()
Korean American bros partying it up in Los Angeles’ Koreatown. It started as a web series, and was made into a full length feature, and went to the big screen at SXSW. It’s available to stream for free at Tubi. https://tubitv.com/movies/461274/ktown-cowboys If you like street footage of Los Angeles, there’s plenty of it, especially on […]
- Better Luck Tomorrow – AAPI Heritage Month ()
This was the breakout: an (East) Asian American movie that wasn’t about identity, or specifically Asian issues (though, it kind of was), and was mostly just a “regular movie”, but with an Asian American cast. GQ had an article about how it came to be: MC Hammer helped make it happen! It’s free with commercials […]