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Rising From the Ashes

From the Publisher: “Based on more than 100 personal interviews, Rising from the Ashes follows these events through the eyes and experiences of the families of Rodney King, Latasha Harlins, shooting victim Edward Jae Song Lee, and dozens of business owners, journalists, police officers, firefighters, activists, and other community members. Deeply researched and compulsively readable,…
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“FROM A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY,” YA non-fiction book about Vincent Chin, to be published April 6, 2021 by Norton Young Readers

FROM A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo (Norton Young Readers/W.W. Norton & Co., April 6, 2021) I am honored to tell the story of Vincent Chin for the next generation. My book, FROM A WHISPER TO A RALLYING…
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#YooTube: TV Pilot “Olympic Boulevard” Sold to Peacock

I am thrilled to announce that I sold my first original TV drama pilot to Peacock, NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming platform, with producers Neil Meron and Mark Nicholson of Zadan/Meron Productions and choreographer Kyle Hanagami. Universal TV is the studio for this project. Entitled OLYMPIC BOULEVARD, my pilot is about a disgraced Korean American former K-Pop…
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