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This year’s TOFA honorees: Profiles in excellence (Part 2)
Assemblymember Rob Bonta was elected to the California State Assembly’s 18th District in 2012, where he represents the cities of Oakland, Alameda, and San Leandro as the first and only Filipino American legislator in the 165-year history of California. It was his parents who instilled in him at a very young age the concepts of […]
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Sept 6 is deadline to enroll your kids at language, folk dance classes
This fall, dive into the Filipino-speaking world of The Filipino School of New York & New Jersey’s Ang Mundong Pilipino. During this nine-week program, your child will learn the basics of Filipino and some aspects of Philippine history and culture through various interactive games, song, arts and crafts projects, Philippine folk dances, and other fun […]
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Brooklyn immigration lawyer among FYLPRO young leaders for 2017
The Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. has announced the 10 delegates to the Filipino-American Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO) 2017, including Brooklyn native Amanda Bernardo, Esq. They will be traveling in an immersion trip to the Philippines to meet with leaders of government, industry, business, culture, and social enterprise from October 8 to 14. An immigration […]
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Babata: Percival Cunanan’s soap story
By Cristina DC Pastor Percival Cunanan and his wife Myrna epitomize the industrious immigrant couple. On top of their day jobs – Percy in IT and Myrna previously a manager in a bakeshop — they come home to Long Island to work some more. They make soap. As in bath soap. No rest for this […]
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‘Sulong’ summit sounds call to build a U.S. Filipino youth movement
Youth and students across the Tri-State gathered in Jersey City’s City Council Chambers July 29 for the first-ever Sulong! Filipino Youth Leadership Summit. Participants ranged from young children to high school and college students to professionals. They came from schools all over the East Coast such as Binghamton University, New Jersey City University, and Hunter […]
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A bill in Congress paved the way for my citizenship (Part 2)
By Metty Vargas Pellicer When America got involved in the Cuban Revolution against Spain, it got involved in the Philippines who was also waging a similar war of independence. Fighting a common enemy, the Philippine Revolution joined forces with America. It facilitated the surrender of Manila and the rest of the Philippines to end the […]
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Filipina doctor Metty Pellicer fearlessly finds herself in America (Part 1)
By Metty Vargas Pellicer In high school I was an interna at the Colegio de Santa Isabel. It was heretic for a colegiala, especially an interna, to study at the University of the Philippines. I thought, had my mother gone crazy? Unlike my mother, I did not have the audacity to see myself as a […]
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Moon River Dreamers turn gold, UP College of Medicine Class ‘67 celebrates
By Metty Vargas-Pellicer Fifty years since we left the college, a lifetime ago, but it seemed it was only yesterday. Fifty-four classmates made it to the Desmond Hotel in Albany on July 11-16 for the University of the Philippines Medical Alumni Society in America’s 32nd Annual Grand Convention. The UPMASA is a 501 (c) (3) […]
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Brain cancer warrior’s journey for life one marathon at a time
By Cristina DC Pastor A brain cancer survivor will be among the tens of thousands expected to run in the New York City Marathon on November 5. By his participation, James Auste, 40, makes history as one of few exceptional brain cancer warriors who have run major marathons in successive years. Part of his “campaign […]