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Entertainment Weekly’s Asian AF Covers

This morning, Entertainment Weekly unveiled Shirley Li’s cover story featuring the highly anticipated romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians — which is set to hit cinemas on August 17, 2018. Seeing Constance Wu and Henry Golding looking fab on the cover got us thinking, how many EW covers* have featured Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders? So we dug into the EW archives and unearthed the following.

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*We’re only counting covers where AAPI actors aren’t sharing with non-AAPI co-stars. Let us know on twitter if you can find any other all-AAPI covers of EW!

**Keanu Reeves, Steven Yeun, and The Rock have appeared solo on multiple EW covers.

***Updated December 2018 to include Jason Momoa, the women of Crazy Rich Asians, and Darren Criss.

****Updated March 2019 to include K-Pop group, BTS.

*****Updated December 2019 to include Awkwafina and Taika Waititi


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Keith Chow

Keith is the editor-in-chief of the pop culture blog The Nerds of Color, a co-editor of the comics anthologies Secret Identities and Shattered, and host of the podcasts Hard NOC Life and Southern Fried Asian. His writing has been featured in the New York Times, NBC News, and SYFY Wire. Vanity Fair calls Keith an "incisive interviewer and chummy conversationalist."

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