Timeline of Our Life in America
/Positively Filipino's FilAm History timeline is the most comprehensive available. With this issue, we have added updates (in red) that hopefully keeps up with the constantly increasing number of milestones the community has chalked up to firmly establish its presence in the US. But timelines are always a work-in-progress, so please alert us if there are items missed or to be added.
Meanwhile, FilAm achievers continue to create history as they excel in their respective fields. Making the list in PF's "Fil Ams Among the Remarkable and Famous, Part 39" compiled by our publisher Mona Lisa Yuchengco, are a sportswriter/ESPN host, Miss USA 2022 and a U.S. Ambassador.
Tarmo Peltokoski, a 22-year-old Filipino-Finnish conductor is the current sensation among orchestra fans in Europe. Cultural writer Pablo A. Tariman profiles this amazing classical music star.
October 7 marks the 100th day of the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr. How has he fared so far? PF's Manila-based analyst Ernesto M. Hilario writes a report card.
Here's a story that brings us back decades, to WWII and one man's harrowing experience in Fort Santiago. PF contributor Harvey Barkin has the written account of Enrique Fernandez, a Nueva Ecija tradesman, as shared by his son, Manny Fernandez.
Our Video of the Week features FilAm Ben Scharlin digging up the fascinating story of a little known revolutionary/babaylan named Papa Isio in Negros Occidental, the heart of the Philippine sugar trade.
In The Know
How Filipino Americans could decide the balance of the Senate
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/08/filipino-americans-voters-senate/
Undiscovering the Hidden Histories of California’s Filipino Community
10 Award-Winning Filipino Movies on Netflix You Should Have Watched by Now
https://www.clickthecity.com/tv/article/129988/netflix-award-winning-filipino-movies/
Rhuigi Villaseñor Has Earned It
The Fascinating Life of Nick Joaquin
This charming Filipino restaurant in Berlin has gained local fans and even television fame
