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We are only a couple weeks away from Universal FanCon! We are also less than a month from the premiere of Solo: A Star Wars Story in May. So we figured: why not combine the two and give away some cool Solo merch at FanCon? By now, you’ve probably seen the official trailer for Solo. […]

On an all new episode of Southern Fried Asian, Keith sits down with comic book artist, Joshua Luna. http://traffic.libsyn.com/southernfriedasian/SFA_Josh.mp3 Josh and Keith talk about growing up in Virginia and what led Josh to creating comics about Asian American identity go viral on Twitter (2:00). They also discuss the South’s hidden Asian American histories (4:30) and […]

Black Panther is to cinema as Rakim is to Hip-Hop. I stand by this statement. Before Rakim, rap lyricism sounded a certain way. It was good, but no one would ever claim it was nuanced or anymore lyrically complex than a third-grader’s oral presentation. In 1986 this was no longer the case. Anyone who called […]

While the Star Wars films have been actively working at increasing diversity in front of the camera, casting multiple women, women of color and men of color in key roles, behind the scenes has been a different story. Lucasfilm has consistently hired white male directors and writers for their recent films. It looks like that […]

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