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NEW ORLEANS — For those visiting Louisiana, these must-see places are bursting with Filipino history and culture. These markets representing the first Filipino settlements in the United States at St. Malo and Manila Village, where they...

A latest report from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency shows that nearly 70 percent of those being held in detention centers in the United States have no prior criminal conviction. The Trump administration said this...

LAS VEGAS, NV — Former vice president and now Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden continues to make the rounds — hitting the silver state while on the campaign trail.  In Las Vegas, he met with Filipino...

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DALY CITY, CA — For the first time in the history of Daly City, the Prisoners of War and Missing in Action flag was flown in commemoration of Veterans Day. According to Daly City’s Filipino American...

WASHINGTON DC — It took 18 long days for them to march from New York to the nation’s capital — but these young undocumented immigrants, known as Dreamers, were determined to show Supreme Court justices that they...

LOS ANGELES — The fate of these young undocumented immigrants rest on the country’s highest court. Next week is the Supreme Court hearing on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — which has...

VANCOUVER — The protection of domestic workers’ rights remained center-stage — as Mable Elmore, the first Filipino-Canadian member of the legislative assembly of B.C., celebrated her tenth anniversary in office. Fil-Am domestic workers’ rights advocate Aquilina...

HONOLULU, HI — From 1906 to 1946, about 120,000 Filipinos were recruited from the Visayas and Ilocos, regions of the Philippines, to work as laborers for Hawaii’s sugarcane and pineapple plantations. They were known as “sakadas,” a...

JERSEY CITY, NJ — Just before you cross the Holland Tunnel from New Jersey into New York City, this stretch of residential street in downtown Jersey City is an important part of Filipino American History in...