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The School for Authentic Journalism is offering “20 scholarships to writers, reporters, communicators, bloggers, artists, cineastes, photographers, editors, radio conductors, technicians, community organizers and webmasters who communicate about social movements.” Greg Berger, the Mexico-based journalist and filmmaker who goes by the name “Gringoyo“, is an alumnus of the school (Class of 2004) and writes about his […]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, the avuncular Brooklynite who won the 2013 election on a combination of anti-Bloomberg sentiment, flawed opponents and shrewd campaigning (thanks in part to his son Dante’s lovely hairdo) is highly vulnerable. Before I give a point-by-point explanation of how de Blasio will be unseated, let me get a […]

El 4 de febrero de 2014, una serie de protestas comenzaron en Venezuela contra el gobierno presidido por Nicolás Maduro, dejando un saldo de 42 fallecidos, más de 486 heridos y 1854 detenidos, entre ellos, Leopoldo López. En momentos como éste, son los estudiantes, los activistas, los mártires, y por supuesto, los artistas, que sacan la cara […]

Yesterday a small Puerto Rican news site published a story in which Donald Trump is reported to have told a group of potential donors that, if elected president, he would revoke the U.S. citizenship of anyone born in Puerto Rico. Donald Trump eliminara la ciudadanía americana a los puertorriqueños de ser presidente – http://t.co/0IQTgjv9u1 pic.twitter.com/abJQTVDGEZ — […]

One evening, while I was combing my daughter’s before bed, she started singing a song in Tagalog. I was like, “What!” First, I should explain that my daughter is half Puerto Rican courtesy of her dad (me) and half Filipino courtesy of my wife. Now my original thought was that her grandparents, my in-laws, sang this to her to obviously piss […]

Alvaro Huerta’s piece characterizing Trump as a “true Republican” is understandable but ultimately incorrect. While Trump certainly has a following within the GOP, he is not, by any real standard, a “true” Republican. The polls tell a very different, albeit complicated story —his place within the GOP is tenuous at best— and he is far from […]

Someone needs to give Al Sharpton a history book ASAP: During his reproach of the immigration plan released by billionaire and GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, the MSNBC host added Puerto Ricans to the list of immigrant communities that would be affected by Trump’s plan. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I went to school not […]

With the GOP presidential frontrunner spreading hate and fear, the violence is inevitable. Donald Trump inspired the assault of a homeless Hispanic man yesterday in Dorchester Mass. http://t.co/smoMjxsqMW pic.twitter.com/WNTsWIYms5 — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 20, 2015 From the Boston Globe: Police said two brothers from South Boston ambushed the 58-year-old as he slept outside of […]

Donald Trump seems utterly incapable of two things: promoting a nuanced political argument and finding a decent hair stylist. One is an assault on the eyes; the other, a threat to the fundamental principles of this country. With Trump having thrown his toupée into the ring, a debate over birthright citizenship was practically inevitable. But The Donald isn’t […]

Dena Takruri, the host and producer at AJ+, dispels a few of the biggest myths concerning immigration: Donald Trump framed the debate with these now-infamous words: ‘They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.’ But guess what: The facts don’t agree. No studies out there actually link violent crime to immigrants. One study even found […]

This morning Ezra Klein, explainer-in-chief at the conspicuously lacking in diversity Vox, tweeted his site’s latest attempt to draw in Latino readers: The difference between "Latino" and "Hispanic," in one comic: http://t.co/qyoLh8UzaC — Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) August 19, 2015 One thing to note: Klein is of Brazilian descent (he also shouted the piece out on his […]

Two years before Donald Trump thought migrants from Latin America were “bringing crime” and “rapists,” he had become an advocate for fair and comprehensive immigration reform. Back in 2013, NBC News reported a meeting between the billionaire GOP frontrunner and “youth immigrant leaders Jose Machado, Diego Sanchez and nationally renowned Dreamer Gaby Pacheco of The Bridge Project at […]

Many people are unaware of just how dark a flourishing and shady police subculture really is. Police brutality has been brought to the forefront of society, perhaps due to the influx of social media usage and smartphones. Today we are catching gross violations of the law carried out by police officers who have been sworn […]

Puerto Rican neo-fiction seeks to address the social and psychological problems that afflict modern Puerto Rico, whether in regard to ‘self-racism,’ neo-colonialism, foreign influence, identity crisis and the effects of issues that have afflicted the island for the last two hundred years. The genre would not be bound by single traditional genres such as horror […]

Bajo la bandera de la descolonización se han visto alianzas raras e inesperadas. Se han visto figuras tan opuestas como Rubén Berríos y Pedro Rosselló compartiendo el mismo podio en las Naciones Unidas para denunciar el colonialismo. De la misma forma, el pre-candidato a la gobernación Ricky Rosselló dirigió el movimiento “no partidista” Boricua ¡Ahora […]

Puerto Ricans are the most marginalized citizens in the United States, and that goes double for members of the Puerto Rican diaspora. Mainland Puerto Ricans are often denied the right to speak about the issues affecting an island whose inhabitants are denied the right to decide their own issues to begin with. When mainlanders say they support Puerto […]

If you’re a true New Yorker, you’ve heard the phrase: “Fulano-De-Tal is from THAT block.”  Furthermore, if you’re from South Bronx growing up in the 80’s, more than likely, legendary photographer Ricky Flores has the images to prove it. Now, what if I told you a handful of those images are being turned into large-scale […]