Mayari: She Lost an Eye and Still Outshines Everything

The Bakunawa: The Moon Eater They Never Taught You About

The Tydings-McDuffie Act (1934): The Day Filipinos Became Aliens

Philip Vera Cruz

The Watsonville Riots

The Broken Promise: Filipino WWII Veterans and the Rescission Act of 1946

The Alaskeros: How Filipinos Built the Pacific Northwest — and Paid for It in Blood They arrived in Seattle with nothing. They canned the salmon that fed a nation, picked the apples and hops of the Yakima Valley, wrote the defining novel of the immigrant experience, organized the first Filipino-led union in American history — and two of their leaders were assassinated in broad daylight on orders from a dictator 7,000 miles away. This is the story of Filipinos in the Pacific

The Sakadas: How Filipino Farmworkers Built Hawaii — and Fought to Be Free

Antonio Miranda Rodriguez: The Filipino Who Helped Found Los Angeles On September 4, 1781, forty-four settlers walked nine miles down a dusty trail toward a river in Alta California and founded El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles — the city the world would come to know as Los Angeles. Among those chosen to make that walk was a Filipino man named Antonio Miranda Rodriguez. His name is not on the founding plaque. This is why — and why it matters.

The 1904 St. Louis World's Fair: When Filipinos Were Put on Display