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Chicago hosts first U.S. rally for Roxas-Robredo
While political parties are gearing up for the much anticipated 2016 elections in the Philippines, Filipinos overseas are also staging various online campaign strategies to vouch for their presidential and vice presidential candidates. Filipino Americans have expressed through social media their favorites. In Chicago, “Filipinos Abroad and Friends of Mar and Leni” was organized to […]
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Charo Santos-Concio: She came, took the stage, captivated the community
By Cristina DC Pastor She delivered her speech entirely in Tagalog. Her voice was gentle, her demeanor graceful. But ABS-CBN President and CEO Charo Santos Concio spoke powerfully when she urged Filipinos in the U.S. to continue to assert their “ethnic pride” and their sense of “pagka-Pilipino.” It is “easy to get lost, to be […]
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No slowdown in demand for Filipino nurses, but hiring calls for new strategies
By Cristina DC Pastor Victoria, a nurse from the Philippines, came to RN Express feeling defeated and depressed. She lost almost half a million pesos to recruiters but still had no job waiting for her. Her fiancé, a Filipino American, made the decision for her: Come to the U.S. and let’s get married. On the […]
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Student loans are nothing to be afraid of
By Jen Furer Having gone to school in the Philippines on an academic scholarship, the concept of student loans was alien to me. It wasn’t until I got married in the U.S. and had children that I learned having a student loan is no different from having a mortgage to a house. My husband took […]
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Dolly Fernandez: Growing up in a mixed-race family in anti-miscegenation era
By Cristina DC Pastor “It was a scandal, but it was also a happy marriage. They just had so much fun together.” Dolores ‘Dolly’ Fernandez, the daughter of a Filipino valet and a Norwegian hat check girl, traveled back in time and shared fond memories of her parents’ stirring romance amid anti-miscegenation laws which criminalized […]
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Strasbourg: German name, French allure
By Wendell Gaa There are simply no words to describe the horrible tragedy of the massacre of more than a hundred innocent civilians in Paris at the hands of those murderous and dastardly ISIS terrorists. It is sad to know that yet again, another act of religious hatred and violence has befallen Paris this month, […]
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Fun, fellowship, and farewell at Homecoming sa Konsulado
By Lindy Rosales The word ‘homecoming’ connotes reliving experiences long gone, of friends and memories buried in time, of youthful romance and a past spent pondering the meaning of life and our place in the world. As I get closer to my Golden Year, the invites for gatherings have been constant. High school reunions, college […]
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Skin whiteners and the Filipina’s pursuit of beauty (or is it superiority?)
By Ludy Astraquillo Ongkeko, Ph.D. Not having received information about more recent phenomena being observed and known in the homeland, invariably, I had thought that ‘whitening’ meant one’s pearls, or simply, one’s teeth. Dental care on these shores still alludes to whitening in the use of dental aids for health enhancement. I was more than […]
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NYC public schools students to pay only $10 to see ‘Hamilton’ on Broadway
“Hamilton” producer Jeffrey Seller and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, The Rockefeller Foundation president Judith Rodin, and Gilder Lehrman executive director Lesley Herrmann announced an educational partnership to provide 20,000 NYC public school students with the opportunity to see “Hamilton” on Broadway and integrate the show into classroom studies. This educational […]
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