Injustice

If you want to see a detailed account of the ethnic studies controversy in Tucson Unified School District, the award-winning documentary "Precious Knowledge" is a good place to start. Precious Knowledge illustrates what motivates Tucson High School students and teachers to form the front line of an epic civil rights battle. Precious Knowledge is a […]

Is it possible to just have Arizona secede from the Union? Or at least see some of their "leaders" can get the "hell out of the country," to paraphrase Congressman Allen West? This week, KPHO out of Phoenix ran a story about Arizona state representative (and Republican) Cecil Ash, who suggested in on the floor of […]

The East Haven racial profiling case, which has been overshadow by taco comments and a resignation by the town's Police Chief, continues to get more complex, as the following Democracy Now report reveals. The report states that members of the East Haven police were not only racial profiling Latinos, they were working with ICE to […]

It appears that the Tucson Unified School District's decision to no longer teach Mexican American Studies and prohibit certain books from even being taught (essentially a book ban) continues to find resistance from the community. Two weeks ago, The News Taco reported a detailed piece about a student protest in TUSD against the decision to […]

Here we go again. Looks like East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo has passed on the Latino Insensitivity Award over to former Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien, whose tweet during a viewing of a GOP presidential debate says one thing and one thing only: racism.  This is the tweet:  "The spics are getting way too much airtime!" […]

Looks like East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo, who became an Internet star last week for his "taco" comments in light of four police officers arrested for racial profiling by the FBI, is talking again. Now he is getting into discussions of ethnicity and culture. This video ran in the Connecticut press and Maturo is taking […]

East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo, who this week became known on the Internet as the "Taco Mayor" for comments he made in the wake of four town police officers getting arrested by the FBI for racial profiling, taped an interview yesterday with Hartford's WFSB station where said that he will be a "better leader.' The […]

Looks like the Facebook campaign to deliver tacos to East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo worked out, as 500 tacos arrived today at Maturo's office today. According to local Connecticut outlets, the tacos arrived around 1:30 PM EST but Maturo was not there. Instead his office issued the following statement: "The Town of East Haven has […]

On Monday, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights expressing "grave concern" over  the Arizona Revised Statute §§ 15-112 that subsequently banned the TUSD MAS program. In the letter the Congressional Hispanic Caucus urged the Office for Civil Rights to investigate due to "the language […]

Yes, we know East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo issued an apology for his "taco" remarks that he gave to a WPIX-TV reporter last night when discussing his efforts to reach out to the Latino community in light of four police officers being arrested for racial profiling. And yes, by now, you have probably seen WPIX's […]

Talk about quick. Less than 24 hours after WPIX TV caught him with a “taco” comment as a way to improve his city’s relations with Latino community amid news that four of his officers were arrested for racial profiling, East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo has apologized for his comments, the New Haven Register today. “My […]

The Connecticut Post just published a statement from Governor Dannell Malloy about a WPIX-TV11 video that has East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo saying he "might have tacos" to repair Latino relations in his city in the wake of East Haven police officers getting arrested for racial profiling of Latinos. "The comments by East Haven Mayor […]

Last night, New York’s WPIX TV broadcast a report about how four East Haven, CT police officers were arrested for racial profiling Latino residents. After WPIX’s Mario Diaz presented an overview of the arrests, he had a chance to ask East Haven Mayor Joe Maturo questions about how the diversity of the city’s police force […]

Seems that nothing is sacred any more. COLORLINES posted a piece today about how some readers of The Charlotte Observer would rather spew anti-Latino hate than celebrate the birth of a child. Here is what COLORLINES had to say:   Here’s what happened. A photo of new mom Lucero Arias, 19, and baby Tommy, was […]

The Libro Traficantes are going to Arizona, and you can help them! Support them as they smuggle the books banned by Tucson Unified School District back to the AZ. For more information and to become a Libro Traficante, click here.

Rob, the CBS comedy that was promoted by MALDEF for its Latino actors, earned the network a solid Thursday night and made it the best-rated show since SURVIVOR in its time slot. As reported by TV.Broadway.com:   On Thursday, CBS was first in households (8.7/13), viewers (14.45m), adults 25-54 (4.8/11) and adults 18-49 (3.5/09). CBS […]

The power of community and social media occurs when different ideas from different people come together to fight for a cause that is matters to them. With all the controversy surrounding Tucson Unified School District's banning of certain book as it eliminates its Mexican Studies program, a new blog is asking for people to submit […]

The "Sh*t People Say" videos continue and these DREAMERS are using it to educate. This video was picked up by VotoLatino last night and shared on their Facebook.

More than 200 people demonstrated again at ABC's headquarters in NYC on Thursday night to demand that ABC apologize for airing the now-canceled show "Work It" and meet with the organizers of the Boricuas for a Positive image group.  Here is a video of Thursday's demonstration. Photos by Rebecca Beard. Music by Mercedes Sosa. “We […]

Parody. Anyone can do it and one of our favorites Tony Díaz is doing it out of Houston. Watch out, Arizona. The "wet books" are crossing the border. Check out Libro-Traficante.com for more!

The protest against ABC for it's airing of the now-defunct "WORK IT" show will still continue tonight at 5:30 at ABC's corporate headquarters. Boricuas For A Positive Image For Info: Mr. Rivera: 917-709-2219 ABC has cancelled the sitcom: “Work It.” Though they might believe that this will make the protest STOP, they are WRONG. The Boricua […]