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 […]
By Cristina DC Pastor Glenda Villajuan welcomed children back to her CitiTots day care in Brooklyn on June 8 as New York City began Phase 1 of its planned return to normalcy. In New Jersey, Amable Yalong announced his men’s wear shop in downtown Englewood will reopen on June 15, pledging to assure the safety […]
By Johnson Lazaro, Esq. ‘Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong’ The book cited above, by James W. Loewen and reissued by New Press in 2008, sits beside my bed these days and makes for some very interesting and rather unsettling reading. The subtitle conveys the gist of the book. […]