youth

As the Democratic National Convention is held throughout this week, party leaders are trying to reach out to young people—a voting block that has historically lacked participation on election day....Read More

Are young people engaged in this year’s election? Why are some Republicans voting across the aisle this time? Our panel of Fil-Am leaders tackles these topics in part two of today’s special coverage of the Democratic...

TORONTO — Pinoy kids tested their math prowess at a national abacus and mental math competition, where thousands of students calculated multitudes of numbers without a calculator. UCMAS, or Universal Concept Mental Arithmetic System, is an...

An advocacy group representing sexual abuse victims released a list of more than 7,000 Boy Scout troop leaders and volunteers who have allegedly abused more than 12,000 Boy Scout members since 1944. Nearly 8,000 perpetrators were...

NEW YORK — To the untrained eye, she looks like any toddler playing with paper and paint — but to NYC’s art community, Filipino-American Lola June is known as the pint-sized Picasso. The two-year-old expressionist been featured...

LOS ANGELES — Armida Chow and her husband Brandon have taken a different path towards parenthood. “We want to help our community we have children that need a loving home that can protect them or they just...

SAN FRANCISCO — This is 22-year-old Justine Balane and 23-year-old Shamah Bulangis of Akbayan Youth, speaking to the Filipino-American community of San Francisco. They came from the annual Students for Sensible Drug Policy conference held in Baltimore,...

SAN FRANCISCO — Filipina-American high school senior Kayla Soriano is getting hands-on experience in Filipino art. As a 17-year-old growing up in the US, she made sure to make the most out of this rare opportunity. “I...

NEW YORK – Grammy-winning singer, record producer and philanthropist Allan Pineda Lindo, better known as apl.de.ap, received this year’s Apex for Youth Inspiration Award Wednesday night. “To be recognized by Apex, that does similar work that...

LOS ANGELES – An evening of art, music and People Power transpired as Fil-Am youth commemorated the 30th anniversary of the EDSA revolution that toppled the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship in 1986. “It is due to the...