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Gina Ortiz Jones awaits confirmation as under secretary of the Air Force
The Biden administration has nominated Gina Ortiz Jones to serve as under secretary of the Air Force, the White House announced on April 27. If she is confirmed in the U.S. Senate, Jones becomes the first out lesbian to hold the position and the highest ranking Filipino American in the Biden government. Her nomination was […]
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2020 Census: Population increased 7.4% to 331.4 M
The U.S. Census Bureau announced on April 26 that the 2020 Census shows the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2020, was 331,449,281. The U.S. resident population represents the total number of people living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The resident population increased by 22,703,743 or 7.4% from […]
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‘Their race was their face’
By Rasmin Diaz “When I was slashed on a train I cried for help and nobody helped me so I was a victim twice — by the person who slashed my face and the people who just watched me.” So spoke Noel Quintana in the public service announcement by The Outstanding Filipinos in America (TOFA) […]
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Buddies return to save world from extremist foes
By Wendell Gaa Marvel’s “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” (FAWS) which is currently streamlining on Disney+ had been expected by many fans to be a return to form of standard action superhero serial storytelling as opposed to the brilliantly crafted “WandaVision” which was different in style and thematic approach. In many ways, this show […]
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Fearless Filipinas and what success means to them: new book
In honor of women’s history month, new book, Fearless Filipinas: 12 Women Who Dared to Be Different, shares the stories of modern Pinay heroes in the Philippines and around the world. Filipino history has a pantheon of great Filipina leaders, such as Gabriela Silang and Melchora Aquino. In addition to these historical heroes, there are […]
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Actor Alan Ariano looks back at ‘Miss Saigon’ a generation later
By Cristina DC Pastor Was it only yesterday when Alan Ariano found himself at 890 Studios on Broadway where about a dozen VIPS sat at a long table to listen to him audition for “Miss Saigon?” It does seem that way to this FilAm stage actor best remembered for playing a psychic healer in the […]
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Community organizing: The path taken by District 26 candidate Steven Raga
By Loida Nicolas Lewis Ever since Steven Raga was a young boy, he was always a people person. He was born in Queens, New York where his father Andres Raga and his mother, Adela Cabildo Raga, were staying with her sister Dr. Mila Cabildo Liwanag, who immigrated to New York amid major reforms in the […]
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What’s brewing? A pitch for FilAms to bring PHL coffee to America
The Philippines, the fourth largest coffee consumer in the world, imports 93 percent of its coffee requirement. That fact alone opened an interesting conversation about investment opportunities in the Philippine coffee sector, featured in the Philippine Embassy’s first Agri-Negosyo webinar for Overseas Filipinos in the United States on April 8. The webinar featured presentations by TJ […]
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NUT to film critics: ‘Don’t take things too seriously’
By Joel David When I started looking out for bylines of prolific Filipino writers in English, Nestor U. Torre’s was the one I wound up reading most often. When martial law was declared, he moved from the opposition’s shuttered Manila Chronicle to the Philippines Daily Express, edited by a brother of the First Lady. Yet […]