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By Andrew Lam Originally published in New America Media In a recent New Yorker cartoon, a dog is shown lounging by a pool and saying to a pup: “Youtube’s one thing, but cats will never make it on the big screen.” A funny commentary, surely, but in America that statement could just as easily be applied to ethnic minorities, especially …

By Mary Tablante As a college student unsatisfied with his decision to study to be an accountant, Kenneth Choi hopped on a Greyhound bus from Chicago to Portland to begin taking acting lessons without telling his parents where he was going. Within three-and-a-half years of studying acting, Choi obtained a Screen Actors Guild card, an agent and a manager. But …