VIA Times – June 2021 Issue Vital News, Vibrant VIews for Asian Americans in Chicago & Midwest

By: Elaine Lehman   June is National Immigrant Heritage Month! Established in 2014, this commemoration reaffirms the premise of this Nation’s founding and is reflected in the U.S. Constitution: America has been and will always be a nation of immigrants. ...

By: Janice Dantes   It is amazing to me how far love has come along. As recent as the 1960s, interracial marriages were still illegal. In my lifetime, there has been a recognition of same sex marriages and a recognition ...

PUBLIC ADVISORY ON OFFICIAL PNAA CHAPTER FOR THE STATE OF ILLINOIS The Philippine Nurses Association of America, Inc. (PNAA) is the offi cial professional organization of Filipino-American nurses in the United States, whose primary mission and goal is to uphold the positive image ...

By: Boom Boom Cabalona, “X” Divinagracia, Christopher Miranda   The Treasury Department said that 39 million families are set to receive monthly child payments beginning on July 15. The payments are part of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, which expanded ...

By: Veronica Leighton   Our very active Filipino American community in Chicago can boast of its distinct personality in participating and exerting its eff orts to support and help our community through its sincere dedication when joining any humanitarian organizations, ...

Pratt shared a series of photos that he saw on the channel of Green Beret and mixed martial arts fighter Tim Kennedy, and felt compelled to encourage his fellow Americans to really take the time on this day to not ...

By: James DC   A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in their bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with ...

Very active community leader and popular personality, Dely Villalon.

When Chicago-based Frenchye Harris created the Black Fashion Movement in 2020, it was because she recognized that there were many talented young BIPOC designers who were not getting the attention from the leadership of the fashion world. She was determined ...

June can be appropriately called as the Heart Month of Patriotism, as we celebrate the Philippine Independence Day and also the National Immigrant Heritage Month here in the United States. Freedom is priceless, especially for a country that has experienced ...