This morning, I was in the final stretch of recruiting applicants for the YP4 Fellowship Program. I discussed my own Blueprints for Social Justice, a pilot program that addresses heart disease and diabetes in the Filipino community in the Bay Area with a focus on nutrition and exercise.

For the first time in my life I heard a whole 80-minute lecture on Marcus Garvey this Thursday in my political science course on revolutionary change. It was more than two sentences composed of the words “Back to Africa” and “Black is Beautiful,” and not once did I fall asleep like I usually do in this class.

I left off in a previous post with a comment on how students of color should approach Ethnic Studies classes.

This past Tuesday, 19 August 2008, Pilipino students of James Logan High School, many of whom are also members of the Pilipino Youth Coalition, spoke during a district meeting in response to a New Haven Unified School District (NHUSD) decision to cut 7 Tagalog course sections from James Logan’s regular course offerings.