On April 13, 2021, the San Jose City Council unanimously approved naming a new park Delano Manongs as a tribute to the city’s Filipino American community and farmworker justice movement.

Ann Regino, President of FANHS Santa Clara Valley, shares the story behind Delano Manongs Park in San Jose.

Manongs is a term of respect from the northern Philippines dialect, Ilocano, which is best translated as “older brother.” It is frequently used to describe the wave of Filipino immigrants who came in the 1920s and 1930s.

Delano Manongs park is located on Gimelli Way near North Capitol Avenue in East San Jose, is the first San Jose Park to honor Filipino Americans.

Netflix releases “Trese” based on the fantasy, crime-horror comic book series of the same name created by Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldisimo.

Eleanor Fernandez talks with Historian, Kirby Araullo, from the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns for his early reactions to the series.

Lane Wilcken is an author, cultural bearer, and a pracitioner of the hand tap tatoo.

He shares their current processes during the Covid19 pandemic, his background, and process on how he provides tattoo designs.

"Cultural tattooing is a ritual. There are chants, prayers and offerings to gods/ancestors to whom these tattoos are dedicated. Blessings, and sometimes curses are invoked in bestowing these designs, as well as being marks of prestige, heritage, and history. Modern western tattooing is the result of taking indigenous practices and stripping them of their spiritual, and cultural qualities leaving only the 'art' upon the skin. The recipient is left to make their own meaning for the designs rather than receive sacred ritual marks that are recognized by generations upon generations of ancestors. Let us work to decolonize tattooing and restore its honor."

—Lane Wilcken

Oscar Peñaranda (poet, author, artist) is a recipient of the most prestigious award Gawad ng Alagad ni Balagtas by the Writers Guild of the Philippines (Unyon ng Mga Manunulat sa Pilipinas, UMPIL) for his lifetime achievements in promoting and pioneering the institutionalization of Philippine Studies, Philippine-American Studies, and Philippine Languages Studies in the United States, becoming perhaps the first person who was not residing in the Philippines to be given such an honor.

Oscar talks on the birth of the Filipino America Arts Exposition (FAAE) in 1994, and the early years of Pistahan.

The whole family can join Ate Celina on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month for Bilingual Kwentuhan!

She will be sharing Tagalog children's songs and bilingual/Tagalog books.

Positively Filipino is an online magazine, founded by alum of Filipinas Magazine, chronicles the experience of the global Filipino in all its complexity through articles from journalists and editorial columns.

In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, Positively Filipino launched its webinar series “Racism and the Filipino American.” The first one “Pigments of History” was held last June 29, 2020.

Video: Pigments Of History

A webinar series in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests

Video: A Difficult Conversation

Professors Evelyn Rodriguez and Anthony Ocampo take on the topic of why many Filipinos tend to adopt prevalent racist views in US society; addressing differences as well as bridging the generation gap in tackling racial prejudice in the Filipino American community

Event: August 10, 2020
Immigrants in the Time of Racial Unrest, Pandemic, and Trump

Join us in a conversation between activist Jose Antonio Vargas and immigration lawyer Lourdes Tancinco on the challenges facing immigrants as the United States meets headwinds of heightened racial intolerance and the deadly pandemic. They will discuss the prospects for DACA dreamers and other Trump immigration policies (green cards issued abroad, working visas, and foreign students stranded by the virus).

TATLONG BAGSAK was formed by community partners: Pin@y Educational Partnerships, Pinayista Balay Kreative, Asian Solidarity Collective, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, and San Francisco State University Asian American & Pacific Islander Student Services.

Recorded on June 20, 2020, A symposium and online open source curriculum that aims to address the following questions: ISANG BAGSAK: How is Filipina/x/o freedom tied to Black Liberation? DALAWANG BAGSAK: How can Filipinas/xes/os be in solidarity for Black Lives? TATLONG BAGSAK: How can our Filipina/x/o community continue to spread this critical dialogue? We hope that by spreading this dialogue, we can contribute to combating anti-Blackness in our community.

Featured resources

• Video: Combating Anti-Blackness in the Filipina/x/o Community

• Tatlong Bagsak Website includes Community Dialogue Planning Checklist, Toolkit and Resources.

Filipino American National Historical Society (FAHNS) founded in 1982 in Seattle, Washington as a community-based organization whose mission is “to promote understanding, education, enlightenment, appreciation, and enrichment through the identification, gathering, preservation, and dissemination of the history and culture of Filipino Americans in the United States” with the goal “...to preserve, document, and present Filipino American history and to support scholarly research and artistic works which reflect that rich past...”

Article by Bobby Dalton G. Roy, FANHS National Trustee

The history of the Filipinx community and the Black community in the US is intertwined and we share common threads in the continued struggle for freedom, dignity, and equality.

A national digital program to educate the American public and raise national awareness on the outstanding accomplishments of the Filipino and American Soldiers who achieved victory over the Japanese Imperial Forces in defense of the United States in World War II.

Video: Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony in Honor of Filipino Veterans of WWII

The Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project (FilVetREP) is a national initiative whose mission is to obtain national recognition of Filipino and American WWII soldiers across the United States and the Philippines for their wartime service to the U.S. and the Philippines from July 26, 1941 to December 31, 1946.

Interview with Tony Taguba, founder of FilVetRep and retired major general in the United States Army.

Slideshow: honoring the Filipino and American WWII Veterans

Bataan Legacy Historical Society was created as a response to the lack of information on the Filipino defenders of Bataan.  It began during public readings of a historical novel, In Her Mother's Image, written by the founder of the organization Cecilia I. Gaerlan. 

Where in the world is Kharissa? 

What started as a six-week virtual entrepreneurship program in April has now become a full-pledged two-hour weekly gathering of Filipina women business owners worldwide finding ways of collaborating and supporting each other.  REGISTER at https://on.ffwn.org/3fxV5SD

Kharissa Fernando Smith is a self-taught software engineer, travel blogger, and new business entrepreneur. In 2017 she left her job as a software engineer and product manager at Peek to travel the world with her husband. They’ve since traveled their way through 13 countries (and counting!) blogging about their adventures along the way. In 2020, Kharissa and her husband launched a company together, where they design and build applications and websites, such as BodySmart. Passionate about her Filipino-American heritage, Kharissa served as a project manager for the Filipino American Arts Exposition, the Editor-in-Chief for EXPO Magazine (the official publication of Pistahan Parade and Festival). Kharissa is currently in Mexico, where she recently completed advanced scuba diving training and is looking forward to continuing to travel post-COVID.

“Pivoting the Media Business: From print to digital media”

Sun Star Management Inc. is the holding company of Sun Star Media Group’s newspapers in Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Bacolod, Pampanga and Baguio. Atienza started her career as an economist in the Philippines Department of Trade and Industry then joined the private sector in Jakarta: first as Corporate Affairs Manager of Dharmala Group where she produced newsletters, annual reports and the company’s first corporate identity manual; and later became Corporate Communications Head of the Sinar Mas Group of Companies, one of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates with holdings in pulp & paper manufacturing, finance, and real estate. Gina loves to cook, do patchwork-sewing projects and does occasional horseback riding on a Western saddle.

Filipina Women’s Network (FWN) convenes programs and activities that enhance public perceptions of Filipina women's capacities to lead and to build the Filipina community's pipeline of qualified leaders, to increase the odds that many Filipina women will rise to the president position in the private and public sectors worldwide.