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By Matt Grobar Senior Film Reporter August 18, 2025 8:42am L-R: ‘The Lucky Ones’ and author Mae NgaiNate Saliccioli/Faceout Studio/Brian McConkey EXCLUSIVE: William Mundell’s Neurosphere Entertainment has acquired film and TV rights to The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America, historian Mae Ngai‘s work of nonfiction that tells a multigenerational story of trailblazers in the

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Hannah Romero, Editor | Sep 04, 2025 One hundred and forty years to the day since Chinese miners in Rock Springs were attacked and murdered, their descendants gathered near the site of the massacre. There they honored the memories of those who died and commemorated the event with the unveiling of a new statue called “Requiem.”

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By Naman Ramachandran Richard Harbaugh / ©A.M.P.A.S. Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM is doubling down on its commitment to Asian storytelling with the launch of First Light StoryHouse, a new label designed to elevate Asian and Asian American narratives on the global stage. The venture was conceived and will be jointly overseen by three founding partners: CJ vice chair Miky

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Cecilia Lei Sep 2, 2025 Updated Sep 5, 2025 Photograph of Yick Wo Laundry, In re Wo Lee, case file 3947 (NAID 348094304); Civil and Appellate Case Files, 1863–1911 (NAID 295935); U.S. Circuit Court, Ninth Circuit, Northern District of California, San Francisco (USCC San Francisco); RG 21, NARA San Francisco.  (Courtesy of the National Archives at

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Ethnic studies are under attack. Along with any curriculum demonized and dubbed “DEI” (formerly, and more accurately, known as “diversity, equity and inclusion”), the Trump administration is targeting everything from reading lists to history lessons for cuts and systematically eliminating inclusive curriculum and programming from schools. Does that stop ethnic studies advocates? Absolutely not. Art

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