Filipino Americans

Members of what is perhaps the oldest Asian community in the United States are committed to preserving—and sharing—their story.

The US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez discusses her new book on Isabel Cooper, a Filipina American actress and Douglas MacArthur’s lover.

A new history of labor organizing in Coachella tells us the story of the United Farm Workers and how its rank-and-file members drove the union to success.

A Filipino woman died after coming to the U.S. to be put on display at the 1904 World's Fair. A Smithsonian anthropologist likely took part of her brain.

A location-based timeline and interactive map of the L.A. Zoot Suit Riots.

260,000 Filipinos served in World War II, when the country was a US territory. Most veterans have never seen benefits.

How Cesar Chavez married faith and ideology in his landmark farmworkers' march.

How new arrivals remade the east San Gabriel Valley — and assimilated in it.

Fifty years after his father declared martial law, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was welcomed in New York.

Seeing the war from the perspective of citizens of U.S. colonies sheds new light on the impact of World War II.

Uniting for better wages and working conditions, a remarkably diverse coalition of laborers faced off against agribusiness.

How immigrant labor struggles shaped the Hawaii we know today.