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The brave legacy of Filipino nurses featured in powerful documentary
Filmmaker Michele Josue explores the untold history and legacy of Filipino nurses in the United States and their selflessness and bravery in the face of tragedy, including on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in the feature documentary “Nurse Unseen.” Josue is the Emmy-award-winning director of “Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine” and the critically lauded […]
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Remembering history at Normandy
By Wendell Gaa Since my days as a junior high school student, I’ve been fascinated with the history of the Second World War. I’ve known for a very long time how the Pacific Theater held the highest immediate stakes for my whole family and ancestors living in the Philippines at that pivotal stage in world […]
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Aug 3 is Manuel Quezon Day in Saranac Lake, N.Y.
By Lindy Rosales August 3 is a momentous date in Saranac Lake in Upstate New York. For the first time, the village in the Adirondacks Mountains will host a “President Quezon History Day” to remember the first president of the Philippine Commonwealth who passed away at Saranac Lake 80 years ago on August 1, 1944. […]
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Against the backdrop of the NYC skyline, PHL Independence Day marches on
By Cristina DC Pastor The parade weaved the crowd together, one organization after another: The nurses with the Knights of Rizal with the indigenous dancers with the provincial floats with the teachers with the pageant beauties in their flashy tiaras and so on, their magnificent colors blending into the lingering line of marchers. It was […]
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WW II Veteran Bert Pumento celebrates 100th birthday
The Filipino Veterans Recognition & Education Project (FilVetREP) wishes Bert Pumento a happy 100th birthday! The veteran centenarian celebrated his special day on July 12 with his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren at a tourist resort in Lipa, Batangas province. He has been living with one of his children in San Francisco. Pumento served with […]
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Continuing the Philippine Independence Day tradition of marching on Madison Avenue
By Cristina DC Pastor The parade weaved the crowd together, one organization after another: The nurses with the Knights of Rizal with the indigenous dancers with the provincial floats with the teachers with the pageant beauties in their flashy tiaras and so on, their magnificent colors blending into the lingering line of marchers. It was […]
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What have we learned from the GomBurZa past?
By Allen Gaborro In 1872, in what was pre-revolutionary Philippines, an atmosphere of intrepidness, nationalism, and self-awakening descended on Filipinos as three Roman Catholic priests were unjustly put to death by the Spanish colonial authorities. The trinity of priests (Mariano Gómes, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora), were garroted—after what was widely believed to be a […]
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Harvard’s Peabody Museum showcases Philippine collection
Consul General Senen Mangalile visited the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at Harvard University on May 21 to view its extensive Philippine collection. His wife Ma. Fe Mangalile joined him on his visit. The Peabody Museum houses over 8,000 ethnographic and photographic materials from the Philippines, primarily acquired between 1900 and 1930 by renowned […]
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‘Zone of Interest’ disturbingly portrays the happy life of a Nazi family
By Wendell Gaa “The Zone of Interest,” this year’s Oscar winner for Best International Feature, is one of the most original and innovative films in recent memory. When I viewed this historical period movie set during one of the most horrific and darkest chapters in human history, it was unlike any other Holocaust-era piece I […]