Marina Fang (she/her) is a national reporter at HuffPost, based in New York. She covers the intersection of culture and politics, including diversity and representation in race and gender, issues surrounding Asian American identity, as well as general movies and television. She previously covered breaking news and national politics, including managing much of HuffPost's evening and weekend coverage of the 2016 election. In 2020, she was a fellow at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Critics Institute. Raised in Pittsburgh and a graduate of the University of Chicago, Marina can be reached at marina.fang@huffpost.com.
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Vincent Chin TV Series In The Works With The Cooperation Of His Estate
Chin's murder in 1982 galvanized a nationwide movement of Asian American activism that remains relevant today and continues to grow.
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New Yorker Workers Hold Significant Leverage In Strike Threat: A Weekly Print Product
Top editors could be forced to halt production of the million-circulation magazine in the event of a work stoppage, rather than try to put out scab issues.
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‘Hacks’ Fits Perfectly Into This Moment Of Reevaluating Women Who've Been Misunderstood
Jean Smart’s character in the HBO Max series channels many real-life, unfairly maligned women.
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'Kim's Convenience' Star Simu Liu Gets Candid About The Show's Abrupt Cancellation
The beloved Canadian sitcom’s fifth and final season premiered on Netflix this week.
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What Jon M. Chu Learned From ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ To Maximize The Power Of ‘In the Heights’
The director talks about getting the long-awaited adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Tony-winning musical into theaters.
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'Mare Of Easttown' Brings Up Conflicting Feelings About Cop Shows
The HBO series, which aired its final episode Sunday, does a lot to elevate and complicate the standard cop show — but ultimately it's still a cop show.
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Quiara Alegría Hudes Wants 'In The Heights' To Become 'The Gateway' To Many More Latinx Stories
The Pulitzer-winning playwright talks about the long journey to get the groundbreaking musical from the Broadway stage to the big screen.
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'Grey's Anatomy,' 'In Treatment' And Pandemic-Related TV Are Exhausting But Necessary
On shows like "Grey's Anatomy" and "In Treatment," it would have been a disservice to ignore reality and to tell audiences it's OK to look away.
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Oscars Announce Plans For 2022 Ceremony
Next year's Academy Awards will largely return to their pre-pandemic form but some pandemic modifications will continue.
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For Asian American Women, Racism And Misogyny Have Always Been Intertwined
A new report lays out how AAPI women have experienced the toxic combination of racism and misogyny throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Hollywood Movies Continue To Perpetuate Harmful Asian Stereotypes
In a time when anti-Asian racism is surging, a new study breaks down how often popular movies depict “violence, death, and disparagement” of API characters.
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The Creators Of The Inclusion Rider Want All Of Hollywood To Get On Board
Three years after Frances McDormand gave inclusion riders a big spotlight, its creators want more studios and companies to commit to diversity in hiring.
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In Just One Month, Advocates Collected Nearly 3,000 More Reports Of Anti-Asian Racism
The rise in racism against Asian Americans has led to both an increase of racist incidents and greater documentation of the problem.
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Welcome To Chinatown Aims To Preserve Small Businesses
With Welcome to Chinatown, co-founder Vic Lee offers support for New York’s Asian American community as it navigates inequities exacerbated by the pandemic.
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Asian Americans Leading The Way In Art And Activism
Our project highlighting people who are leading the way forward in the face of trauma and fear in Asian communities across America.
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How Underrepresented TV Writers Have Faced More Inequities During The Pandemic
A new survey of underrepresented TV writers found that last summer’s racial reckoning may have led to more opportunities — but not necessarily better ones.
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‘Gold Diggers’ Captures The Weight Of The Model Minority Myth
Sanjena Sathian’s riveting debut novel is already being developed into a TV series by Mindy Kaling’s production company.
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The Oscars Promised To Be A Movie, And Boy, Did It Have A Twist Ending
Anthony Hopkins’ shocking Best Actor win over Chadwick Boseman gave the Academy Awards a chaotic conclusion to what was already an unusual ceremony.
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The 2021 Oscars Will Almost Certainly Be The Lowest-Rated Oscars Ever — And That’s OK
The 93rd Academy Awards are finally here, ending the longest, strangest awards season in recent history.
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Hollywood Is Leaving Money On The Table By Not Prioritizing Diversity, New Study Shows
Movies with more diverse casts consistently earned more at the box office and generated bigger streaming audiences in 2020.