K-pop band BTS's win at the Billboard Music Awards was a victory for both the band and the Korean music scene.
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- The names of the 8 people killed in Atlanta-area spa attacks Tuesday: • Soon C. Park, age 74 • Hyun J. Grant, age 51 • Suncha Kim, age 69 • Yong A. Yue, age 63 • Delaina Ashley Yaun, age 33 • Paul Andre Michels, age 54 • Xiaojie Tan, age 49 • Daoyou Feng, age 44
- Ken Jeong made five donations in the amount of $10,000 each to the GoFundMe campaigns for the families of the victims in the Atlanta-area spa shootings.
- “I think the biggest worry was when we have bodies in that ocean that still had not been discovered, and for us to see them snorkeling when we still haven't retrieved all our dead — that was hard," one local said.
- K-pop band BTS' win at the Billboard Music Awards was a victory for both the band and the Korean music scene.
- Stacey Abrams has been mobilizing Asian American voters for years, helping transform the electorate in Georgia.
- Meghan Markle’s podcast returned this week with guests Margaret Cho, Lisa Ling and Nancy Wang Yuen to explore tropes that often depict Asian women as either submissive or overbearing.
- Audiences all over the world are loving the Indian blockbuster movie “RRR,” Netflix’s most watched non-English film.
- Anthony Bourdain and President Barack Obama had dinner at Bún chả Hương Liên in Vietnam for "Parts Unknown" in 2016. The restaurant has since memorialized the table they sat at. on.today.com/2FJOClp via @TODAYshow
- Wisconsin school board members dismissed a book on Japanese American incarceration during World War II because it created an “unbalanced” account of history, outraged parents say. trib.al/fd3PtU6
- Audiences all over the world are loving the Indian blockbuster movie “RRR,” Netflix’s most watched non-English film.
- “It’s interesting to see how much people still think he was a white British dude." nbcnews.to/2OWWpFc
