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Texas museum remembers Fall of Corregidor
To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Fall of Corregidor, the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas featured on May 6 the documentary film “Forgotten Soldiers.” Guests packed the theater and additional seating had to be brought in to accommodate the crowd. In the film, narrated by Hollywood actor Lou Diamond Phillips, […]
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Young FilAms connect with the past
By Cristina DC Pastor Frisky 3-a-half-year-old George Haines came into the Singgalot cultural show with his American dad and Filipino mom. “You can’t be Filipino,” I cracked a lame joke hoping to get his attention and take his photo wearing a ‘Pinoy’ shirt in Sheldon Cooper fashion. He coyly buried his smiling face into his […]
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‘I want to be able to tell my grandkids where we came from’
By Joey Tabaco The first time I heard of Singgalot was in a 2008 Yahoogroup email from the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) Metropolitan New York Chapter, in which I am a board member, announcing the opening of its tour in Los Angeles. A follow-up message thread from Nestor Enriquez, a FANHS National Trustee […]
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‘Singgalot’ travels to New York, seeks volunteers
Stony Brook University will house the traveling exhibit “Singgalot — The Ties that Bind: Filipinos in America from Colonial Subjects to Citizens,” from February 12 to April 22. “Singgalot” details the rich history of more than 2.7 million Filipinos in America from the early pioneers who settled in the bayous and marshes of Louisiana in […]
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Should Filipino veterans receive U.S. military honors?
On December 15, 2011 a bill was filed in the U.S. Congress seeking to grant the prestigious Congressional Gold Medal to American and Filipino troops who defended Bataan during World War II. S.2004 filed by Senator Tom Udall seeks to award “a single gold medal” to the troops from the United States and the Philippines […]
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Rizal Day: Let’s remember his birth not the day he was shot like a dog in a public park
By Daniel de la Rosa I could never understand why we celebrate Rizal Day on December 30. Let’s see, the Spaniards shot him in the back at Bagumbayan that morning in 1896 for inspiring a revolt later launched by Andres Bonifacio. It was a revolution whose leadership was offered to him by Bonifacio, but he […]
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How I met Dr. Jose Rizal at the Brooklyn Bridge
By Nestor Palugod Enriquez The Statue of Liberty in the Hudson River greeted our Navy ship to New York City 50 years ago. My eyes eagerly scanned the New York skyline as I was waiting for the Liberty Call announcement. The panoramic view from the water was incredible, I would swap it to a view […]
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Career vs family, according to the Hukbalahap Amazons
Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex and Revolution in the Philippines By Vina A. Lanzona University of Wisconsin Press 2009 By Lorial Crowder It began as a dare and led to an impromptu meeting two weeks later with Professor Vina A. Lanzona of the University of Hawaii Manoa, the author of “Amazons of the […]
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‘Paglilitis’ examines who is hero, villain in history
There will be a special screening of “Ang Paglilitis ni Andres Bonifacio” on November 29 at 6:30 p.m. at the Philippine Center on Fifth Avenue. While the film is billed as the untold story of Bonifacio’s trial for treason under the 1897 revolutionary government of Pres. Emilio Aguinaldo, director Mario O’Hara said the story is […]