THIRTY SIX years ago, early in the new year of the tiger, the Filipino people…
Education is critical in the campaign against anti-Asian hate especially today as Asians have become…
The fatal shootings in Atlanta, Georgia of six women of Asian descent at businesses known…
Jeremy Lin, an Asian American basketball star who helped add “linsanity” to our vocabulary a…
The vaccines are finally here! And they are excellent at preventing symptoms from COVID-19, including…
THE majority of folks who experience racism are African Americans. But the pandemic has seen…
IT has almost been a month since the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol,…
The phrase describes an ancient Chinese torture method to kill a person slowly and painfully…
During the initial pandemic wave of the spring and summer, we were lucky not to…
“My generation in Germany were always asking our parents and grandparents how Adolf Hitler could…
A WORKSHOP that I enjoy leading, pre-COVID-19, is one I developed for our Filipino immigrant…
THE Philippines once had two presidents but only for a few days. On Tuesday, February…
“Being a black person in this world doesn’t kill you, but being a black person…
A palpable sense of loss overcame me upon hearing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s (RBG)…
In a previous essay, I wrote that the passage of AB 1460 and its signing…
“What we do echoes through the generations…” —Former President Barack Obama in his 2020 Democratic National…
Commenting on my previous essay entitled “Utang na Loob,” (published in the Los Angeles Asian…
Engaging in a conversation about the current fight against racism, discrimination, and police brutality is…
Shortly after the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag started to appear over social media, I overheard an Anglo…
I came to the United States in the late 1960s to pursue graduate studies at…
“In the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is…
The fight against the C-19 pandemic is a war, a war of global proportions. It…
President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would put an end to “chain” migration as a…
Last week marked the 45th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law over the Philippines…
The Los Angeles riots of 1992 are among a few moments that are seared in…
A photo essay by Rick Rocamora, with an introduction by Rene Ciria-Cruz Quiapo is a…
The killing of Dallas police officers by sniper fire marks a new escalation of race…
Barely a year into his presidency, Barack Obama was awarded the most prestigious Nobel Prize…