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“There is something about listening to the stories of our Filipino-American elders that touches me at the soul level,” posted Fil-Am biopharma entrepreneur Lieza Marie Danan after attending last Saturday’s tribute to community manongs and manangs, sponsored by Positively Filipino.

History is not preserved by monuments alone. It endures because people choose to remember, to tell stories, and to honor lives that have shaped a community. That is what the annual Building Communities: A Tribute to our Manongs and Manangs, created by Mona Lisa Yuchengco, have accomplished year after year. Through Positively Filipino, the ev...

Thirteen and a half years ago, the four of us former Filipinas* magazine colleagues—came together with a simple idea: to create an online magazine that would tell the stories of Filipinos everywhere, not just in the Philippines or the United States. We had no idea Positively Filipino would still be here more than a decade later.

Looking back, what fill...

On what should have been a day of celebration, Filipino American civic leader Roswell Encina found himself alone, surrounded by masked members of a white nationalist group aboard a Washington, D.C., Metro train. His 25-minute ordeal was photographed by Getty photographer Finn Gomez, the only other "civilian" on that train. The now-viral image captured a chilling moment, but i...