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Educator Deirdre Levy announces candidacy for mayor of NYC
By Cristina DC Pastor Deirdre Levy, a K-2 special education teacher, has announced her candidacy for mayor of New York City. This pits her possibly against former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who is reportedly mulling a decision to run, and re-electionist Eric Adams in the June 24 Democratic primary. Cuomo resigned in 2021 over sexual misconduct […]
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Wells Fargo’s Jerome Flores: Embracing diversity at work and at home
By Cristina DC Pastor Jerome Flores started working at Wells Fargo Bank as a young teller. That was 18 years ago or shortly after the merger with Wachovia. It’s his “first real job.” Today, he is one of the Filipino Americans holding top positions in the country’s fourth largest bank. He is the Senior Diversity […]
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How hyper-masculinity denied Babaylan women then, Kamala Harris now, their power
By Allen Gaborro There is more than one reason why Kamala Harris was defeated by Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, the most prominent of all being the fact that the Democratic nominee was a woman. But it wasn’t simply because Harris was a woman per se that so many men reverted to their […]
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‘St. Denis Medical’ and the Filipino Mafia in U.S. hospitals
By Cristina DC Pastor “St. Denis Medical” is the latest hospital series to hit primetime television. But instead of being a medical drama like “ER” or “Grey’s Anatomy,” SDM is a sitcom about a small-town Oregon hospital with Filipino nurses among the main characters and the so-called Filipino Mafia as their hospital Superpower. “It’s funny,” […]
