By Gil Quito, Curator As the torch (sulo) illuminates, once-obscured visions (panawin) arise from the dark. Part of the Sulo: the Philippine Studies Initiative at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, “Visions/Panawin” aims to showcase a film tradition that is now increasingly being recognized across international film circles. Philippine cinema, which celebrated its […]
An unfamiliar episode in U.S.-Philippine history happened between 1920s and 1930s. It was a time when so-called “Filipino boys” worked aboard the Princeton Pullman train as cooks, servers, and did all sorts of menial jobs. A blog by April Armstrong entitled “The Princeton Pullman’s ‘Filipino Boys’” is published at the Princeton University website under the […]
By Cristina DC Pastor New York University is offering a Philippine Studies Program beginning in April, to study the impact of the Philippine diaspora in the areas of health care, the sciences and the arts, and other disciplines. It also coincides with the quincentennial of 1521, the year of Ferdinand Magellan’s landfall in the Visayas. […]
Tony DelaRosa, 31, a Teacher Leadership Coach at Teach for America in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, calls himself an “aspiring anti-racist educator.” In many of the classrooms he’s walked into, he has witnessed or experienced anti-Asian racism or microaggressions — a kid or two yelling “ching chong ching chong” or asking if his family has […]
By Grethel Bolandrina “Sadly, COVID-19 and 9/11 have also provoked discrimination within people of different races. 9/11 turned a few people against Muslims and the Coronavirus against the Chinese. If there’s one good thing that came out of these disastrous events, it would be that the world and people came together for each other. Citizens […]
By Zia Kalong Suyomano is a virtual platform focused on cultural learning experiences touching on local languages, indigenous tribal cultures and medicine, mythology, traditional martial arts, food and beyond. Suyomano is made up of two unique Tagalog words: “Suyo” which means gentle affection and “mano” which is a gesture of respect. “We believe that bringing forth the […]
West Point Cadet Tyrese Bender was recently named one of 32 U.S. Rhodes Scholarship awardees, possibly the first Filipino American to receive the prestigious honor. He hopes to earn a Master of Science in Sociology and Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation from Oxford University. Beyond that, he will belong to an exclusive league of the […]
Labor organizers Larry Itliong and Philip Vera Cruz are honored in murals and history books as important leaders in the Filipino American community. There is one who is rarely mentioned. His name: Patrick Salaver. Salaver founded the first FilAm student organization, the Pilipino American Collegiate Endeavor, in 1967 to help students not only improve their […]
The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) announced modifications on July 6 to temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online classes due to the pandemic for the fall 2020 semester. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to publish the procedures and responsibilities in the Federal Register as a Temporary Final Rule. Temporary exemptions for […]