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Toms River HS auditorium named after Nobel recipient Maria Ressa
By Maggie Downs Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Toms River Schools alum, was celebrated on May 23 at Toms River High School North during the dedication of the school’s auditorium being named in her honor. Ressa was a part of Toms River North’s class of 1982 and was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize […]
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Jesusa Sonora is gone; long live Susan Roces
By Joel David Susan Roces’s recent passing made me realize at first how she could have been a star in Philippine politics as well, as the best First Lady and First Mother we never had. I’d voted for her late husband, actor-producer and National Artist Fernando Poe Jr., and later for her daughter, Grace Poe, […]
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Learning PHL history in a martial arts school
More of a cultural center than just your typical martial arts studio, Legacy Filipino Martial Arts has opened its doors to both children and adults of all backgrounds. This Daly City, Calif. school not only strives to help people with self-defense but also aims to promote Philippine history, culture, and traditions with the help of culture […]
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‘Everything everywhere:’ Comedy, action, sci-fi all at once
By Wendell Gaa “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is the most original and clever film I have seen for this year yet, and another “Asian-centric” piece to be proud of. As much as I loved and enjoyed this season’s other exciting blockbuster “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (and Marvel’s darkest movie yet), “Everything […]
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Queens Memory’s Tagalog podcast features the FilAm community
Queens Memory – a community archiving program supported by Queens Public Library and the Queens College Library – will release the next bilingual episode of its latest podcast, “Our Major Minor Voices”in English and Tagalog versions on Monday, May 16. “Seeing Signs” (English)/”Tanáw” (Tagalog), produced by Rosalind Tordesillas, covers the history and challenges of the Filipino […]
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‘The world wonders’
The FilAm Editorial When the unofficial results of the Philippine elections began streaming through the Internet, the collective reaction of a disbelieving universe was echoed in the 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf when the Americans were fooled by the Japanese into chasing an empty carrier. “Where is Task Force 34,” asked the American commander in […]
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U.S. renews pledge to ASEAN ‘to guard against threats to international rules, norms’
Secretary of Foreign Affairs Teodoro Locsin, Jr. led the Philippine Delegation to the two-day ASEAN-U.S. Special Summit which the White House announced was to re-affirm the importance of U.S.-ASEAN cooperation in ensuring security, prosperity, and respect for human rights. President Biden welcomed the leaders of ASEAN for the historic summit, held in Washington D.C. […]
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Lawyer Kevin Benedicto is 1st FilAm member of the S.F. Police Commission
Consul General Neil Ferrer joined San Francisco city officials and community leaders in the swearing-in ceremony of Attorney Kevin Michael Benedicto as San Francisco’s first FilAm police commissioner. The ceremony was held at the Tahanan Supportive Housing Building in San Francisco’s SOMA Pilipinas District on May 9 as the U.S. was celebrating Asian American and […]
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U.S. senators call charges against Leila de Lima ‘politically motivated’: Release her now
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, led by Republican Marco Rubio and Democrat Ed Markey, called for the “immediate release” of Senator Leila de Lima who has been in jail for five years following bogus drug charges against her by the government of Rodrigo Duterte. They were joined by senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Marsha Blackburn […]