By Loida Nicolas Lewis Butch Meily’s memoir “From Manila to Wall Street” recounts his journey as a young Filipino immigrant and a public relations professional in the USA. Then lightning strikes: the Filipina wife of an African American entrepreneur-lawyer calls him about a PR opportunity. And his ascent to the highs and lows of the world of […]
Dr. J. Mark Munoz, a business scholar in Illinois may yet be the most published Filipino American academic author in the United States. He has authored and edited more than 30 books on business & management and technology and just released three more recently. They are: –“Digital Leadership: Concepts and Cases.” Published in February 2025, […]
By Allen Gaborro For centuries, China has been a formidable yet enigmatic social, cultural, and political entity, more so to outsiders. To intone the evolution of this historical landscape is to recognize one truth: that the Middle Kingdom has been replete with webs of wonder, contradictions, and complexities that at once have amazed and boggled […]
By Claire Mercado-Obias In the tiny kitchen of her Brooklyn apartment, Abi Balingit experimented making sweet treats with a Filipino twist. The successful recipes, she posted on her blog, The Dusky Kitchen. One day, a literary agent asked if she wanted to write a cookbook. After a resounding yes, she worked on it during the […]
On the same day and at the same location as the Philippine Independence Day Parade, the first-ever Filipinx American Comic and Book Festival on Madison Avenue will be happening in New York City. “I’m excited to be participating in the first annual Filipinx American Comic & Book Festival! I’m most looking forward to being in […]
By Allen Gaborro In the vein of the vernacular and the sentimental, Oscar Peñaranda brings together both the gemstones and the rougher cuts of his oeuvre in “Follower of the Seasons: A Onethology in Symphony.” The roots of this potpourri of personal reminiscences, the congruences and resourcefulness of and between individuals, and the human history […]
By Crystal Turner Director of Communications & External Relations The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture Baltimore, MD – The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture is proud to announce that its highly anticipated exhibit, “TITAN: The Legacy of Reginald F. Lewis,” is now open. […]
By Loida Nicolas Lewis When Filipino American actor Lou Diamond Philips arrived for The Loida Lewis Podcast, I was starstruck. He looked like a distinguished professor, with silver streak in his hair and on his beard, still handsome as he has always been. His breakout film “La Bamba” in 1987 was the bio-pic of Ritchie Valens, who died […]
By Cristina DC Pastor It is still winter in New York and if you perhaps sometimes catch yourself dreaming of languid days in the Philippines, they will be filled with the golden sun, the warm sea, and of course the island cuisine that makes the Philippines the land of our hearts. There’s a book that […]