PinoyBuilt — Stories of Filipino America

HISTORY MADE 🇵🇭 : Jalen Green, Jordan Clarkson become first NBA players of Filipino descent to play in same game #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth https://t.co/3CoTMpcE5a pic.twitter.com/NgLHisJQl2 — KRON4 News (@kron4news) October 30, 2021 It was a historic night for the NBA ( @NBA )! For the first time in history, 2 Filipino basketball players played in an #NBA game! Congrats to Jalen Green ( @JalenGreen ) and Jordan Clarkson ( @JordanClarksons ) for making history! #FilipinoHeritageNight 🇵🇭 https://t.co/2HZ8cARjp7 — MYX Global (@myxglobal) October 30, 2021 The Western Conference matchup between Utah and Houston was the first time in NBA history that two players of Filipino descent–Jalen Green and Jordan Clarkson–shared a floor together. | @BLozadaINQ https://t.co/OwGmsigstI — INQUIRER Sports (@INQUIRERSports) October 29, 2021 Houston celebrated Filipino Heritage Night in honor of Rockets rookie Jalen Green and Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson, who are both of Filipino...

Jalen Green & Jordan Clarkson become the first two players of Filipino descent to share the court in the same game! Jordan Clarkson and Jalen Green became the first two players of Filipino descent to share the court in NBA history 🙌 @JordanClarksons | @JalenGreen pic.twitter.com/nY2TnSzY7G — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) October 29, 2021 Cool to see @JalenGreen of Fresno honored by the @HoustonRockets with a Filipino 🇵🇭 Heritage Night. Tonight the Rockets take on the @utahjazz & Jalen's fellow Fil-Am baller @JordanClarksons pic.twitter.com/T7E2WVshiP — Dale Yurong (@DaleYurongABC30) October 28, 2021 In the NBA's 75th season, the first two players of Filipino descent share the court together. 🇵🇭 Jalen Green and Jordan Clarkson face off against each other during the Rockets' Filipino Heritage Night. 🎥 @NBA pic.twitter.com/wF7M1lrj4j — The Athletic (@TheAthletic) October 29, 2021 REPRESENT! 🇵🇭 Utah Jazz’s Jordan Clarkson and Houst...

Wanting to Reconnect with your Culture? This Innovative Filipino Martial Arts Program Can Fill the Void. Written by Joseph Bautista: Did you grow up as a second or third generation Filipino-American in the United States? If so, have you experienced being embarrassed for not knowing how to speak Filipino or not being familiar with Filipino culture or history? You are not alone. In the San Francisco Bay Area , a new program is coming to Daly City to help you overcome that.  Eskabo Daan Filipino Martial Arts  has developed a program to help fellow Filipino-Americans learn about Filipino culture and have fun while doing so. Classes will teach participants how to translate: Weapons fighting to empty hand fighting English to Tagalog Tagalog to Baybayin The program is designed to expose all participants to self-defense techniques, fitness, history, culture, language, writing and more through Filipino Martial Arts . Filipino Martial Arts, more popularly known...

Vancouver, BC • December 2025. Vancouver Canucks Filipino Heritage Night — first NHL Filipino celebration, Karissa Narukami logo artist, Rogers Arena, Filipino community Vancouver, bayanihan, Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy, Filipino Canadians. Vancouver, BC • December 2025 Behind the Logo: Inside the Vancouver Canucks' Inaugural Filipino Heritage Night On December 5, 2025, a Filipina artist with autism placed the Philippine sun and stars on NHL ice — and a community still healing from tragedy found something it had been waiting a long time to feel: belonging. On December 5, 2025, something quietly historic happened at Rogers Arena in Vancouver. The Vancouver Canucks hosted what is believed to be the NHL's first Filipino Heritage Night — celebrating one of the fastest-growing communities in Canada. For many in attendance, it was more than a hockey game. It was recognition. It was pride. And in a year marked by heartbreak fo...

Vallejo, California • March 2026. Green Meets Gold: How Filipino Americans Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in America's Top Cities. fil-am st patricks day, chicago filipino american, boston filipino, san francisco parade, new york filipinos, irish filipino culture, diaspora celebration, autumn durald arkapaw. Culture & Community • March 2026 Green Meets Gold: How Filipino Americans Celebrate St. Patrick's Day in America's Top Cities From Chicago's iconic emerald river to San Francisco's West Coast parade, Fil-Ams aren't just watching—we're walking in it. "Kiss Me, I'm Brownish" — Filipino Americans embrace St. Patrick's Day with Pinoy Pride. 📷 PinoyBuilt Every March 17, seas of green flood America's streets in honor of St. Patrick's Day — a celebration rooted in Irish history but fully embraced by the multicultural fabric of the United States. For Filipino...

Vallejo, CA • March 2026. Rob Bonta's Next Move: What the AG Race Means for Fil-Am Politics in California. Filipino American, California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, 2026 election, Fil-Am politics. VALLEJO, CA • MARCH 2026 Rob Bonta's Next Move: What the AG Race Means for Fil-Am Politics in California California's first Filipino American Attorney General chose the courtroom over the governor's mansion. Here's what that decision means for Filipino American political power — now, and in the decade ahead. In January 2026, Rob Bonta made a choice that surprised many California Democrats — and clarified something important about where Filipino American political power in California actually stands. With the governor's race wide open, labor unions lobbying him to enter, and a fragmented Democratic field in search of a frontrunner, Bonta said no. He would stay as Attorney General, he announced, because the fight against the Trump admini...

Hawaii • April 2026. Kapamilya vs. Ohana: Why Fil-Ams Are Trading Tagalog for Hawaiian. sakada, ohana, kapamilya, filipino diaspora, ilocano hawaii, fil-am identity, kinship, tagalog language, philippine history. CULTURE & IDENTITY • APRIL 2026 Kapamilya vs. Ohana: Why Fil-Ams Are Trading Tagalog for Hawaiian More than 118 years after the first Sakadas landed in Honolulu, Filipino Americans are borrowing a Hawaiian word to describe their most Filipino value. What does that say about who we are — and what we may have forgotten? The Filipino bond with Hawaii stretches back to 1906, when the first Sakada laborers arrived on sugarcane plantations that would define the islands' modern identity. | PinoyBuilt In July 1985, at the age of eighteen, I bought my first "Filipino Strength" T-shirt at the Aloha Stadium swap meet in Honolulu. I was on my first trip to Hawaii — wide-eyed, proud, and not yet aware that those two words a...