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Azucena | The Filipino-American Poetry Book That Started It All
The first poetry book to be published by a Filipino in the United States, Azucena, was written by Marcelo de Gracia Concepcion. Azucena has been republished this month by Persea Books, a century after its initial release (1925-2025).
10 years strong: LEAD Filipino marks decade of civic leadership with call to action
It all started with a table outside of a Seafood City in 2015.
LEAD Filipino volunteers were on hand with clipboards and flyers for a Filipino voter registration drive. It was an early campaign for the grassroots organization, which grew out of a desire to build Filipino civic voice and representation.
Is It Time to Stop Blaming Colonial Mentality for Everything Wrong With Us?
Maybe it’s time to stop defining who we are by what we’ve suffered, and start loving who we’ve become.
The Double-Edged Flag: When Filipino Americans Run Against Each Other For the Same Office
For decades, visibility was the dream. Filipino Americans looked at city councils, state legislatures, and Congress and wondered: When will we finally be seen? When will our names, our faces, our accents belong in the political landscape of the country we helped build?
Loving a Homeland From Afar | The Politics of Filipino American Influence
Loving a Country You No Longer Live In: When Filipino American Power Meets Philippine Politics
The Archipeligo Within | The Uneven Map of Filipino American Identity Across States
Being Filipino American in California is not the same as being Filipino American in Ohio. Identity shifts with geography - and organizing must too.
A City of Hustle, A Culture of Diskarte | How Chicago’s Filipino Community Is Turning Creativity into Collective Power and Keeping the Spirit of FAHM Alive Year-Round
As Filipino American History Month comes to a close, DISKARTE: Coalition reminds us that culture isn’t just something to celebrate — it’s something to build from.
From basketball courts to kitchens, DJ booths to art studios, DISKARTE is turning Filipino creativity into collective power.
Faith, Family, and the Fear of Divorce : Why Filipino Culture Still Treats Divorce as a Family Disgrace
In Filipino culture, a failed marriage is not just heartbreak - it’s treated like a family shame. But silence only deepens the wounds.
Half Black, Half Pinay, Entirely Her Own: The Rise of Jae’roze Tate
Jae'roze Tate is a Filipino African American musical artist who blends English and Tagalog in her rap lyrics. Born and raised in the Philippines, she later moved to the United States for higher education.
Beyond Balikbayan Dreams: Rethinking Filipino American Wealth
Our parents dreamed of retiring in the Philippines. But if we only buy condos we rarely live in, we’re not building wealth - we’re burying it.
Filipino Rough Riders & The Wild West | Discover A Hidden Chapter in American History
rofessors Emmanuel David and Yumi Janairo Roth have extensively researched this forgotten group, publishing their findings in February 2024 in Playing Filipino: Racial Display, Resistance, and the Filipino Rough Riders in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West .
Exporting Exploitation: The Ugly Truth About Outsourcing to the Philippines
Outsourcing isn’t job creation. It’s wage theft with a passport - even when Filipinos do it to Filipino.
If You’re Going to Open a Filipino Restaurant, Open It in Chicago
Filipino restaurants are making culinary history — from the first Michelin star at Kasama to James Beard wins (Kuya Lord, Abi Balingit) and a flurry of nominations — drawing national attention to a cuisine that’s been here all along.
Respecting Indigenous Sovereignty: What Solidarity Really Looks Like
Indigenous communities are not symbols. They are sovereign nations.
'We are telling a story that is lost': Pinoytown tours uplift long-forgotten history in San Jose
Did you know San Jose once had its own Pinoytown? 🌆 Before Japantown became what we know today, Sixth Street was alive with Filipinos, Japanese, and Chinese families building lives together.
Golf but Make It Filipino | SIPA’s Giving Greens Invitational Tees off For change for the nextGen
On Monday, October 6, 2025, Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA) invites you to the Giving Greens Golf Invitational, a fundraiser-meets-cultural-homecoming that’s rewriting the rules of philanthropy, visibility, and Filipino American legacy.
The Philippine Ballet Theater Is Bringing Sarimanok and Filipino Fashion Legends to UCLA
Experience Sarimanok, a new ballet inspired by Mindanao myth, plus Pinagmulan, an exhibit of legendary Filipino designers, October 25 at UCLA.
Filipino Student Orgs Have the Sauce And It Could Be the Blueprint for Filipino America’s Future
Every spring, Filipino student orgs across the country fill auditoriums with the rhythms of kulintang and the snap of tinikling sticks. They are beautiful, necessary reminders of who we are in a country that erases us.
Is It a Butterfly, a Snake, or Something Else Entirely?
Discover Attacus lorquini, the giant Philippine moth with wings that look like a snake’s head. Nature’s ultimate optical illusion.
The Forgotten Constituents: How Overseas Filipinos Can Rewrite Philippine Politics
We left the Philippines, but we never left the fight. And if we organize, our ballots could do what billions in financial remittances never will: force the nation to change.