Category: Candid Perspectives

By Emil Guillermo When I found out the widow of United Farm Workers (UFW) labor leader Pete Velasco was in a hospital battling COVID-19 back [Read More…]

By Emil Guillermo U.S. Congressman John Lewis, a man of non-violence and love, who made an impact on human rights and civil rights throughout the [Read More…]

By Emil Guillermo I would see John Lewis when I worked as a press secretary in the 103rd Congress. He was still young and feisty, [Read More…]

By Emil Guillermo Lost another relative. Not to Covid. But it doesn’t matter. We’re all impacted. As far as I’m concerned, I’m not going to [Read More…]

By Emil Guillermo I decided to not go to my “big sister’s” funeral. With COVID-19, how are we expected to get our Filipino death selfie? [Read More…]

By Emil Guillermo James Juanillo, a Filipino American in San Francisco just did his good deed for Black Lives Matter. It’s part of what we’re [Read More…]

By Emil Guillermo Are you joining in any George Floyd protests in Hawaii? Maybe by ZOOM? Or does the state have a surplus of “Aloha”? [Read More…]

By Seneca Moraleda-Puguan There are so many things happening around the world. There is so much to talk and write about, so many that it [Read More…]

By Emil Guillermo If you saw the PBS documentary, “Asian Americans,” then you got a big gulp of history over two days. And there were [Read More…]

By Emil Guillermo It’s easy to be annoyed with Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, a.k.a. the yearly excuse non-APAs pay attention to us. As a [Read More…]