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Seattle, Washington • October 2026. Carlos Bulosan and the Manong Generation: What the Record Shows. carlos bulosan, america is in the heart, manong generation, filipino american history month, FAHM 2026, 10/3, ILWU Local 37, Filipino labor history, Bulosan Center UC Davis, Seattle International District, Filipino American literature. FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH • OCTOBER 2026 Carlos Bulosan and the Manong Generation: What the Record Shows Migrant laborer, union editor, and author of America Is in the Heart , Carlos Bulosan wrote the manong generation into the American record. Here is what archives and reference sources confirm about his life, his work, and where to find him. PinoyBuilt illustration for Filipino American History Month 2026. This is an artwork, not an archival photograph. October is Filipino American History Month, and any honest accounting of it has to make room for the men who worked Americ...

Former President Barack Obama delivered a speech on the "state of our democracy " at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus Friday, in what will set his tone for campaigning ahead of the November midterm elections . Today I’m at the University of Illinois to deliver a simple message to young people all over the country: You need to vote, because our democracy depends on it. I hope you'll tune in at 11am CT: https://t.co/34WjNaVAcU — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) September 7, 2018 The former commander-in-chief is receiving the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government, which will be given to him by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. Obama, who has chimed in from time-to-time to remark on President Trump's words and actions, is expected to address threats to the United States' democracy and the consequences of apathy, and urge fellow Americans to vote this November. The award Obama is receiving is the same one that was bestowed upon the late Sen...

Vallejo, CA • August 2026. The Spanish Exchange Student Wrote Back: A Filipino Answers the Empire Question. limpieza de sangre, gracias al sacar, polo y servicios, tributo, spanish colonization philippines, jose rizal, gomburza, la solidaridad, sistema de castas, colonial mentality, ejr david brown skin white minds, captaincy general philippines, black legend leyenda negra, decolonize the mind, filipino american history. Decolonize the Mind • August 2026 The Spanish Exchange Student Wrote Back: A Filipino Answers the Empire Question A schoolmate from Spain read our World Cup piece and objected: the Indies were vice-royalties, not colonies, and under Spanish law all Christians had the same rights. Here is the answer. It starts with a tax roll in Luzon. The argument does not live in slogans. It lives in the tribute registers, the labor drafts, and the blood-purity files. | PinoyBuilt A few weeks after w...