By Allen Gaborro For centuries, China has been a formidable yet enigmatic social, cultural, and political entity, more so to outsiders. To intone the evolution of this historical landscape is to recognize one truth: that the Middle Kingdom has been replete with webs of wonder, contradictions, and complexities that at once have amazed and boggled […]
On the same day and at the same location as the Philippine Independence Day Parade, the first-ever Filipinx American Comic and Book Festival on Madison Avenue will be happening in New York City. “I’m excited to be participating in the first annual Filipinx American Comic & Book Festival! I’m most looking forward to being in […]
By Cristina DC Pastor Filipinos are the second largest market in the Asian American community in terms of household income, according to Giancarlo Pacheco, vice president of the Asian American Advertising Federation (3AF), a trade organization connecting agencies with media, research and marketing companies. With their impressive numbers, Filipino Americans are an important demographics for […]
By Tricia J. Capistrano Wednesday, April 23 is a big day for Nicole Casperson and Anton Briones. Nicole and Anton, who publish the newsletter “Fintech is Femme,” are hosting their biggest event, the Fintech is Femme Leadership Summit at the New York Times Center. Six thousand attendees are expected. The speakers include Angel Rich, founder […]
By Agustin Guido There’s a certain art to rhetoric, but there’s also a fine line between eloquence and intellectual laziness. Richard Heydarian, in his attempt to wax geopolitical, made a statement that is as reductive as it is reckless: “I came from the North of the Country where our human development index is almost Southern […]
By Cristina DC Pastor On December 30, 2024, the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico issued the famously ‘undocumented’ Jose Antonio Vargas a (d)(3) Waiver O Visa, a purely discretionary visa usually given to individuals “balancing social and humanitarian considerations,” according USCIS.gov website. “My O visa was approved…after 31 years, four months and 28 days of […]
By Cristina DC Pastor These are the core components that comprise the not-for-profit organization WICCAFE or the Women’s Immigration and Communications Café, a conversation and media platform for women immigrants founded by journalist Marivir Montebon. “There are cookies to bake and stories to tell by immigrant women on a media platform, not just in kitchens […]
By Marivir Montebon The launch of the poetry book “Parañaque to New York City: Fifty Poems” flowed splendidly on the evening of October 24 in downtown Manhattan, a full circle moment for author Therese Rodriguez, a civil rights champion and CEO of Apicha Community Health Center. Steadfast in her activism for public health and human […]
By Selen Ozturk Journalists nationwide are fighting domestic violence by focusing on solutions for survivors before the cycle turns deadly. Every year, over 10 million people in the U.S. experience domestic violence, amounting to nearly 20 people physically abused by a partner every minute. Over a third of U.S. women (35.6%) and over a quarter of men […]