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Filipino Wear for Filipino American History Month
What to wear for Filipino American History Month in October, from barongs to heritage streetwear honoring Filipino American history.
Indigenous Filipino Clothing: T'boli, Ifugao, Kalinga, Maranao and Yakan
A guide to Indigenous Filipino clothing from the T'boli, Ifugao, Kalinga, Maranao and Yakan peoples.
Ancient Filipino Clothing: What Pre-Colonial Filipinos Wore
What did pre-colonial Filipinos wear? Ancient Filipino clothing, gold and tattoos as shown in the Boxer Codex.
Filipino Traditional Dress Through History: From Pre-Colonial to Today
A timeline of Filipino traditional dress, from pre-colonial weaves and tattoos to the baro't saya, terno and modern Filipiniana.


The Watsonville Riots (1930): When California Tried to Drive Filipinos Out
The Watsonville Riots


The Broken Promise: Filipino WWII Veterans and the Rescission Act of 1946
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
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
The Sakadas: How Filipino Farmworkers Built Hawaii — and Fought to Be Free


Antonio Miranda Rodriguez: The Filipino Who Helped Found Los Angeles
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.
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