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Gold House
Gold House is a non-profit organization based in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Singapore that promotes the interests of people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent. The collective consists of founders, creators, investors, entertainers, thinkers and other leaders with the goal of highlighting each other's work, investing in both content and companies, and changing perceptions about the impact of the Asian Pacific diaspora within and across multicultural communities. According to the organization's website, the strategy is to "forge meaningful bonds across professional, familial, and community life, and leverage those relationships to elevate the Asian Pacific diaspora's authentic societal representation and economic success." History Gold House was founded by former YouTube executive and entrepreneur Bing Chen in 2018 in an effort to strengthen and uplift the API community. Chen, who holds the role of executive chairman and CEO of Gold House, wanted to combat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Gh or GH may refer to: Businesses and organisations * Gästrike-Hälsinge nation, a student society at Uppsala University, Sweden * GitHub, a hosting platform for code and software projects * Globus Airlines (IATA:GH) * Grubhub, an American online food delivery platform * Iron Guard (Argentina) (), a socialist organisation Entertainment * ''Guitar Hero'', a video game series ** ''Guitar Hero'' (video game), the first in the series * ''General Hospital'', an American daytime medical drama Science and technology * .gh, Ghana's Internet top-level domain * Gigahenry, an SI unit of electrical inductance * Growth hormone, a hormone which stimulates growth and cell reproduction in humans and other animals * DGH Degrees of general hardness (properly dGH or °GH, but sometimes written simply GH) Other uses * gh (digraph), in language * Howard GH, an American WWII transport and utility plane * Ghana (ISO 3166-1 country code:GH) * GH, a suspect in the assassination of Olof Pal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blackhouse Foundation
The Blackhouse Foundation (2006–present) is a non-profit organization that creates new opportunities for the Black community in the film world. This foundation attends film festivals across the world every year to encourage the creation of independent films based on people of African background. History The Blackhouse Foundation was created in 2006 when Brickson Diamond had attended two Sundance Film Festivals. There were very few black audience members, and even fewer films created by the black community. During Diamond's second visit, he met with Ryan Tarpley in an area designated for LGBTQ attendees, The Queer Lounge. It was then Diamond, Tarpley, and producer (Carol Ann Shine) thought of the idea for Blackhouse. Carol Ann Shine recommended that Diamond create an area for the black community at the Sundance Film Festival, similar to the area created for LGBTQ attendees. This was when Blackhouse was born. Mission As a foundation, they have held 110 events, and 300-panel di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creative Artists Agency
Creative Artists Agency, LLC (CAA) is an American talent and sports agency based in Los Angeles, California. With 1,800 employees in March 2016, it is regarded as an influential company in the talent agency business and manages numerous clients. In September 2023, French billionaire François-Henri Pinault completed the acquisition of a majority stake in CAA, in an agreement valued at 7 billion dollars. The purchase was made through his investment company, Groupe Artémis. History Creative Artists Agency (CAA) was formed by five agents at the William Morris Agency in 1975. At a dinner, Michael Ovitz, Michael S. Rosenfeld, Ronald Meyer, Rowland Perkins, and William Haber decided to create their own agency. The agents were fired by William Morris before they could obtain financing. CAA was incorporated in Delaware and had a $35,000 line of credit and a $21,000 bank loan and rented a small Century City office. Within a week, they sold a game show called '' Rhyme and Rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yahoo!
Yahoo (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web portal that provides the search engine Yahoo Search and related services including My Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo News, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Sports, y!entertainment, yahoo!life, and its advertising platform, Yahoo Native. It is operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present), Yahoo! Inc., which is 90% owned by Apollo Global Management and 10% by Verizon. Yahoo was established by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. However, its use declined in the 2010s as some of its services were discontinued, and it lost market share to Facebook and Google. Etymology The word "yahoo" is a backronym for "Yet another, Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. The term "oracle" was intended to mean "sourc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Wu
Michelle Wu ( zh, t=吳弭, first=t; pinyin: ''Wú Mǐ''; born January 14, 1985) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the mayor of Boston, mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, since 2021. She is the first woman and the first person of color to be elected to the position. Being 36 years old at the time, she was also the youngest individual to have been elected to the position in nearly a century. The daughter of Taiwanese Americans, Taiwanese American immigrants, Wu graduated with honors from Harvard College and earned her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. From 2014 to 2021, she was the first Asian American woman to serve on the Boston City Council and acted as its president from 2016–2018. Wu is a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. Boston City Council tenure of Michelle Wu, While on the Boston City Council, Wu authored several ordinances that were enacted. This included an ordinance to prevent the city from contracting wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States. It has an area of and a population of 675,647 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in the Northeastern United States after New York City and Philadelphia. The larger Greater Boston metropolitan statistical area has a population of 4.9 million as of 2023, making it the largest metropolitan area in New England and the Metropolitan statistical area, eleventh-largest in the United States. Boston was founded on Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by English Puritans, Puritan settlers, who named the city after the market town of Boston, Lincolnshire in England. During the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War, Revolutionary War, Boston was home to several seminal events, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Lim
Phillip Lim (born Pheng Lim; September 16, 1973) is an American fashion designer. Lim is of Chinese descent whose parents immigrated to the United States from Cambodia during the Cambodian genocide. Lim co-founded and worked at the Los Angeles-based fashion label Development from 2000 to 2004. In the fall of 2005, he co-founded 3.1 Phillip Lim with friend and business partner Wen Zhou, becoming the company's creative representative. Lim has garnered both critical and commercial success with his eponymous line. The Council of Fashion Designers of America awarded Lim the 2007 award for Emerging Talent in Womenswear for his work at 3.1 Phillip Lim. In 2012, he was awarded the council's Swarovski award for Menswear. 3.1 Phillip Lim 3.1 Phillip Lim is Lim's fashion label. Collections For the line's fall 2006 collection, Lim aimed to "inject some 'street elegance' " into his designs. Laird Borrelli of ''Vogue'' praised his work as a "pretty-but-cool clothes" that "don't try too h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prabal Gurung
Prabal Gurung () (born 1974) is a Nepalese American fashion designer based in New York City. He launched his own eponymous label in 2009. Since 2017, he has also been the creative director for Japanese jewelry house Tasaki. Gurung is a co-founder of the House of Slay. As of December 2024, he is vice chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). His memoir, ''Walk Like a Girl'', was released in May 2025. Early life and education Gurung was born in 1974, in Singapore to Nepali parents and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal. His mother, Durga Rana, was a former boutique owner. His older brother, Pravesh Rana Gurung, is an Indian film director, and his older sister, Kumudini Shrestha, is a teacher and social worker. He went to a Jesuit school, St. Xavier's School in Jawalakhel. Before entering the fashion world, he earned a bachelor's degree in hotel management from the National Council of Hotel Management, Catering Technology and Applied Nutrition. He had always been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloe Kim
Chloe Kim (born April 23, 2000) is an American professional snowboarder and two-time Olympic gold medalist. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she became the youngest woman to win an Olympic snowboarding gold medal when she won gold in the women's snowboard halfpipe at 17 years old. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, she became the first woman to win two gold medals in halfpipe. She is an eight-time X Games gold medalist and the first woman to win two gold medals in snowboarding at the Winter Youth Olympic Games. She is the World, Olympic, Youth Olympic, and X Games champion in the halfpipe and the first to win the title at all four major events. Kim has won five ESPY Awards, including Best Female Action Sports Athlete three years in a row. Early life Kim was born on April 23, 2000, in Long Beach, California, and raised in nearby Torrance. She has two older sisters, Erica and Tracy. Her parents are from South Korea. Kim began snowboarding at age four at the Southern California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simu Liu
Simu Liu ( ; ; born 19 April 1989) is a Canadian actor. He rose to prominence by starring as Shang-Chi in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' (2021). Liu was born in Harbin and raised in Ontario. He has also played Paul Xie in the Omni Television crime drama series '' Blood and Water''—for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award and an ACTRA Award—Jung Kim in the CBC Television sitcom '' Kim's Convenience'' (2016–2021), and one of the Ken dolls in the fantasy comedy film ''Barbie'' (2023). In 2022, Liu published the memoir ''We Were Dreamers'' and was named one of ''Time'' magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Early life Liu was born in Harbin, China, on 19 April 1989, son of Zhenning and Zheng Liu. His parents met while attending university in Beijing, where they both studied engineering. His father, Zhenning, went to the United States to study for a PhD whilst his mother worked in Beijing, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Yeoh
Yeoh Choo Kheng (; born 6 August 1962), known professionally as Michelle Yeoh (), is a Malaysian actress. In a career spanning over four decades, Yeoh has appeared Michelle Yeoh filmography, in projects encompassing a wide array of genres, and List of awards and nominations received by Michelle Yeoh, received various accolades, including an Academy Awards, Academy Award and a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two British Academy Film Awards. Credited as Michelle Khan in her early films, she rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s after starring in Hong Kong action cinema, Hong Kong action and Martial arts film, martial arts films where she performed her own stunts. These roles included ''Yes, Madam (1985 film), Yes, Madam'' (1985), ''Magnificent Warriors'' (1987), ''Police Story 3: Super Cop'' (1992), ''The Heroic Trio'', ''Tai Chi Master (film), Tai Chi Master'' (both 1993), and ''Wing Chun (film), Wing Chun'' (1994). After moving to the Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Golding
Henry Ewan Golding (born 5 February 1987) is a British actor of Malaysian origin. He has starred in the romantic comedies '' Crazy Rich Asians'' (2018) and ''Last Christmas'' (2019), the thriller '' A Simple Favor'' (2018), the action comedy '' The Gentlemen'' (2019), as well as playing the title character in the action-adventure '' Snake Eyes'' (2021), and he appeared in the ensemble cast of ''The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare'' (2024). In 2025, he had a role in the second season of the Hulu anthology series '' Nine Perfect Strangers''. Before being known for his film work, he began his career as a presenter on ESPN, BBC, and Discovery Channel Asia. Early life Golding was born on 5 February 1987 in Betong, a town in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. His mother, Margaret Likan, is a native-born Sarawakian of Dayak Iban ancestry, and his father, Clive Golding, is English. Golding is the youngest of three children. The family lived in Terengganu for almost five years before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
