‘How can you forget me’: show details Filipino Americans’ rich history

The Washington DC show explores the history of a community in search for their American dream In 2005, Antonio Somera was cleaning out the basement of a building in Stockton, California, when he discovered 26 steamer trunks stacked together, seemingly untouched for decades. Their contents, he would soon learn, belonged to Filipino migrants who arrived in the United States as early as the 1910s. Among the items was a white pillowcase embroidered with the words “HOW CAN YOU FORGET ME” in red th...

By Jed Surio