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Fatima Angeles named VP of Programs at California Wellness Foundation
The California Wellness Foundation (Cal Wellness) announced August 1 the appointment of Fatima Angeles as vice president of programs, effective immediately. Fatima has served as interim vice president of programs since August 2013, and previously was director of evaluation and organizational learning. The foundation’s press office confirmed she is Filipino American. Fatima is responsible for ...
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Descendants document the contributions of ‘Manongs’ to Filipino America (Part 2)
By Carlene Bonnivier “Because countless Filipinos worked in, passed through, and settled here (Stockton), it became the crossroads of Filipino America. Yet immigrants were greeted with signs that read “Positively No Filipinos Allowed” and were segregated to a four-block area centered on Lafayette and El Dorado Streets, which they called “Little Manila.” In the 1970s, ...
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Stories out of Stockton from sons of ‘Manongs’ (Part 1)
By Carlene Bonnivier The national conference held July 31 – August 3 by the Filipino American National Historical Society (FANHS) in San Diego brought together testimonies of the largest Asian immigrant population in the U.S. about their collective achievements and history outside of their homeland. Writer Carlene Bonnivier met descendants of the early Filipino workers ...