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In 1927, one of the first Filipino civic organizations in New York City, the Filipino Women's Club, was founded. [7] In 1960, there were only 2,744 Filipino Americans in New York City. [8] In 1970, there were 14,279 Filipinos in New York State, 52.4% of whom were college graduates. [9]
Legaci – Filipino-American R&B band from the San Francisco Bay Area, California, formed in 1997. They are currently the backup singers for Canadian Pop-R&B singer Justin Bieber on the My World Tour. Q-York – Filipino-American hip hop record production duo composed of Flava Matikz (DJ/producer) and Knowa Lazarus (songwriter/MC).
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Filipino people. It includes Filipino people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Disabled people from the Philippines .
Geena Rocero (born 1983) [1] is a Filipino-born American model, TED speaker, and transgender advocate [2] based in New York City. [3] Rocero is the founder of Gender Proud, a media production company that tells stories of the transgender community worldwide to elevate justice and equality.
A Filipino health worker reportedly retaliated against a woman who spat on her while riding an N Broadway Express train in New York City on Saturday. Philippine Consul General in New York Elmer ...
Javed Abidi – director of the National Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) in India [1]; Abia Akram – disability rights activist from Pakistan; founder of the National Forum of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan; prominent figure in the disability rights movement in the country, as well as in Asia and the Pacific; named one of the BBC's 100 Women in 2021
Fatal subway burning exposes New York City’s sad disconnect to humanity. Kirsten Fleming. ... Zapeta-Calil is an illegal migrant from Guatemala who burned a sleeping woman because, quite simply ...
Tanaquil LeClercq was a prima ballerina for the New York City Ballet. She was forced to give up dancing when she contracted polio in Copenhagen in 1956 and was paralysed from the waist down. [78] [205] Maud Lewis: 1903–1970 Lewis caught polio as a child, which severely reduced her mobility; she could only raise her neck with great difficulty.