In this month on CUNY TV's Asian American Life, Michael Tamsuriyamit produces a two-minute billboard package about the recent anti-Asian hate crimes in New York City, including the homicide of 35-year-old Asian American Christina Yuna Lee.
SHOW DETAILS:
This month Asian American Life looks at New York City’s most diverse city council as it swears in the highest number of Asian Americans into political office. Plus it’s been one year since the brutal attacks of Asian Americans nationwide. Host and correspondent Ernabel Demillo speaks with one victim’s family who’s fighting back with AAP(I Belong). Historical lessons, the Public Theater’s true story of “The Chinese Lady” is an off Broadway hit. And we visit Yu & Me books, the first Asian American female owned bookstore.
GUESTS:
Shekar Krishnan - New York City Council, District 25
Linda Lee - New York City Council, District 23
Elizabeth “Liz” Kari - Founder, AAP
Shannon Tyo - Actress “Afong Moy”, The Chinese Lady
Ralph B. Pena - Director, “The Chinese Lady”
Daniel K. Isaac - Actor “Atung”, The Chinese Lady
Lloyd Suh - Playwright, The Chinese Lady
Lucy Yu - Founder & Owner, Yu and Me Books
RECORDING DATE:
02/21/2022
FIRST AIR DATE:
03/01/2022
ABOUT ASIAN AMERICAN LIFE (AAL):
Ernabel Demillo is the host of Asian American Life, a monthly half hour series about the fastest-growing immigrant group in the country, focusing on Asian Americans in the tri-state area from over 40 countries who speak more than 150 different languages and dialects. Every month, an Asian enclave and neighborhood within the tristate area is featured. Cutting edge issues like racial profiling and stereotyping are examined and explored. Successful Asian Americans who are forging new identities in business, politics and the arts are also be profiled. Asian American Life is reaching new frontiers in the quest for understanding and acknowledgment among tri-state Asian Americans.
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