Have you ever wonder why there are so many nail salons owned and operated by Vietnamese women? Director Adele Pham had the same questions and decided to explore this question in a documentary she’s working on called NailedIt: Vietnamese & The Nail Industry. Adele Pham explores the social, economic, environmental factors of Vietnamese in the nail industry. Along the way she discovers some interesting stories like how actress Tippi Hedren’s (stared in Hitchcock’s The Birds) meeting with 20 Vietnamese refugee women triggered an early …
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Marcus Books located at 1712 Fillmore St in the Fillmore district of San Francisco, is America’s oldest Black-owned bookstore going back to the 1960’s. In the ongoing gentrification battles of San Francisco, Marcus Books was the latest victim of a forced buy out by real estate speculators, Sweis. Marcus Books‘ owners, the Johnsons family were locked out of their property this past May 6th, their store’s contents, books, memorabilia, and other valuables were destroyed by Sweis, while the Johnsons’ and community members …
Japanese American human rights activist and a longtime Oakland resident Yuri Kochiyama passed away yesterday June 1st, 2014 at the age of 93. [NPR] [Democracy Now] Yuri Kochiyama was known for her activism since the 1960’s, her comradeship with Malcolm X (she’s the mysterious Asian lady holding Malcolm’s head when he was assassinated on February 21, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, pictured in Time magazine), her later activist work with the Puerto Rican independence movement, reparations for Japanese interment camp survivors, political …
Another interesting midseason sitcom picked up by ABC is Black-Ish. It’s about a suburban upper middle class black family living in a mostly white community. The Johnson family deals with issues of identity, culture, and class. The father character Andre wonders if his family is forgetting their black roots while in the process of quickly assimilating into an affluent lifestyle. Black-Ish is loosely based on the life of writer and producer Kenya Barris. The show is executive produced by the staring actors, …
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