The president proclaimed Sept. 25-Oct 1 as National Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPSI) week Last week, President Joe Biden released a first-ever formal proclamation celebrating educational…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Cries of “Marcos is not welcome here!” filled the air in front of the White House as Filipino-Americans and supporters gathered at the nation’s capital to protest…
The national multi-agency strategy is designed to better serve Asian American and Pacific Islander communities THE Biden administration this week unveiled a comprehensive plan that broadly assists federal government agencies…
White House AANHPI representatives celebrate diversity despite low approval ratings for current admin ONE year ago, on Jan. 20, 2021, when President Joseph R. Biden and Vice President Kamala D….
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has personally thanked United States President Joe Biden for America’s COVID-19 vaccine donations. The chief executive was able to express his gratitude during a high-level discussion…
PRESIDENT Joe Biden marked the start of October as Filipino American History Month by honoring the Fil-Am community’s contributions to the United States, especially amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. “Filipinos…
UNITED States President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, August 5 met with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) leaders to discuss key issues affecting the fastest-growing…
UNITED States President Joe Biden has extended his “deepest condolences” to the Philippines following the death of former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III. In a statement released by the White…
UNITED STATES President Joe Biden joined Filipinos in celebrating the Philippines’ 123rd Independence Day in a video message over the weekend. In his first Philippine Independence Day message as the…
THE United States has announced that it will donate 7 million of its surplus COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Philippines and other Asian countries. In an effort to end the…
President Joe Biden signed an executive order establishing the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) on Friday, May 28 as AANHPI Heritage Month comes…
President Joe Biden signed legislation on Thursday, May 20 seeking to address anti-Asian hate crimes that have risen since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The signing came two days…
President touts pandemic recovery, reforms in first 100 days DURING his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, April 28, President Joe Biden called on the House…
GINA Ortiz Jones, a Filipina American Iraq War veteran who ran for U.S. Congress twice, will be President Joe Biden’s nominee for undersecretary of the Air Force. Jones, who is…
PRESIDENT Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus on Thursday, April 15 in the wake of recent anti-Asian attacks and…
EVERY TIME we watch funerals and burials of our fallen soldiers, every time we see and hear the pain, the anguish, the indescribable sense of loss in the eyes and…
The White House on Tuesday, March 30 announced several actions in response to the latest string of anti-Asian violence and racism in the United States. The move comes two weeks…
UNITED States President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with Asian American leaders in Atlanta on Friday, March 19, three days after eight people, including six Asian women,…
Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Democratic leaders are urging President Joe Biden to nominate Filipina American Nani Coloretti to lead the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) amid concerns…
IN his first primetime address marking the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Joe Biden condemned the “vicious” and “un-American” attacks on Asian Americans. Speaking to the nation…
All American adults to be eligible for vaccines by May 1 Hours after President Joe Biden signed his massive $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill on Thursday, March 11, he delivered…
ONE day after Congress approved his coronavirus relief bill, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion pandemic aid package on Thursday, March 11, marking a crucial political victory for Biden…
WHEN Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and Rep. Linda Sanchez of California first introduced the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 in Congress on Feb. 18, the general consensus…
AMERICANS may be closer to receiving the long-awaited first COVID-19 stimulus checks of the new administration as the U.S. Senate moves forward on making a decision on President Joe Biden’s…
HALF a million people in the United States have lost their lives to the novel coronavirus. According to a Reuters tally of public health data, the country logged more than…
IMMIGRATION reform, a term that has become synonymous with political gridlock and ideological barriers to entry, may finally be on the horizon after decades of unsuccessful attempts from both Democrats…
Part of Biden administration’s vaccine goal in first 100 days A COVID-19 mass vaccination site under the Biden administration’s partnership with the state is now open at California State University,…
As the Biden-Harris administration pledges diverse staffing to reflect the country, several individuals of Filipino descent have been named to key roles to help shape policies across the federal government….
UNITED States President Joe Biden signed a trio of executive orders on Tuesday, Feb. 2 that aim to undo former President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies, including addressing family separation…
PRESIDENT Joe Biden signed four executive orders on Tuesday, January 26 aimed at pushing racial equity, including one to combat xenophobia and racism against Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs),…
