Race

British East Asian Artists cheer on Somi Guha’s Top Gear racism complaint & BBC apology

Leave a Comment / BBC / /

BRITISH EAST ASIAN ARTISTS PRESS RELEASE 23RD APRIL 2014 British East Asian Artists congratulate Somi Guha for winning an apology from the BBC over racism Doubts remain about contradictory BBC statement The British East Asian Artists group (BEAA) are supporting actor Somi Guha’s formal complaint to the BBC for the broadcast of racist material and […]

British East Asian Artists cheer on Somi Guha’s Top Gear racism complaint & BBC apology Read More »

British East Asian Artists and Diaspora music take the diversity debate into Parliament

Leave a Comment / Music, Politics / /

Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) artists demand representation that reflects British Society  Last February, the British East Asian Artists wrote an open letter to broadcasters and culture minister Ed Vaizey about the pitiful almost non-existent representation of east Asians in the media despite being the third largest minority in Britain. Vaizey, who had been

British East Asian Artists and Diaspora music take the diversity debate into Parliament Read More »

The Life & Crimes of Anna May Wong on Madam Miaow, Resonance FM, 5pm today

Leave a Comment / Uncategorised / /

Later today on Madam Miaow’s Culture Lounge, Resonance 104.4FM, listen to “The Life and Crimes of Anna May Wong”, the story of Hollywood’s first Chinese screen legend. 5-6pm. Presented by Anna Chen from her one-woman show, Anna May Wong Must Die! With Charles Shaar Murray. Listen afterwards here or even better, as it’s radio, LIVE via

The Life & Crimes of Anna May Wong on Madam Miaow, Resonance FM, 5pm today Read More »

Chinese originally Black like everyone else who left Africa 100,000 years ago

Leave a Comment / Uncategorised / /

Refuting claims that the Chinese are a separate race of Peking Man — an earlier branch off homo erectus prior to homo sapiens — Jin Li, a Chinese doctor, did mitochondrial tests on thousands of people in 2010 and concluded that they were wrong and we’d all walked out of Africa some 70-100,000 years ago.

Chinese originally Black like everyone else who left Africa 100,000 years ago Read More »

The RSC Orphan of Zhao: one year on, East Asian British in the arts

Leave a Comment / China culture / /

BEAA founding members at Opening The Door, L to R: Michelle Lee, Lucy Sheen, Anna Chen, Jennifer Lim, Paul Hyu, Amanda Rogers, Kathryn Golding and Daniel York February 11th marks the first anniversary of the groundbreaking Opening the Door event at the Young Vic. This was the first positive concrete step offered by a slice

The RSC Orphan of Zhao: one year on, East Asian British in the arts Read More »

Scroll to Top