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Stockton, CA • August 2026. The Historian Who Saved Stockton's Memory: The Legacy of Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, Little Manila, Stockton Filipino history, Fil-Am historian, Little Manila Rising, Filipino American history professor SFSU, Little Manila Is in the Heart, historic preservation, manong generation, Larry Itliong. Stockton, CA • August 2026 The Historian Who Saved Stockton's Memory: The Legacy of Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon Born on this day in 1972, Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon proved that local community memory could rewrite American history. Through her scholarship, activist preservation, and devotion to Stockton's Little Manila, she gave the manong generation a permanent place in the national archive. PinoyBuilt original illustration, honoring the life of Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon (1972–2018). Today would have been Dr. Dawn Bohulano Mabalon's 54th birthday. She was born in Stockton on August 17, 1972...

New York City • April 2026. NYC Little Manila Walk-About Marks 2026 Immigrant Heritage Week. woodside queens, little manila nyc, bayanihan, fil-am community, consul general mangalile, immigrant heritage week, filipino entrepreneurs. New York • April 2026 NYC Little Manila Walk-About Marks 2026 Immigrant Heritage Week On April 16, Consul General Senen T. Mangalile and the NYC Mayor's Office walked the streets of Woodside, Queens — bringing government to the community, and reminding the city who built it. The Little Manila Avenue sign in Woodside, Queens — a landmark of 50+ years of Filipino community presence in New York City. | Photo: Philippine Consulate General New York The first piece I ever wrote about Filipinos in New York City was about my mother. Lualhati "Nati" Reyes-Perseveranda — a young nursing graduate from Mary Johnston — stood on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in 1961, in front of the New York Publ...

Watch KVIE's documentary about 'Little Manila' in Stockton, California Filled with chop suey houses, gambling dens, and dance halls, Little Manila was the area in Stockton notoriously called, Skid Row , but it was also the closest thing Filipinos had to a hometown. In its heyday in the 30s, this lively area had the largest population of Filipinos outside of the Philippines. Narrated by famed Filipino-American producer, Dean Devlin (Independence Day, The Patriot) this documentary tells the immigrant story as Filipinos experienced it.