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Univision: Turning 50 is a great age to focus on your assets and eliminate your liabilities. Personal Reflection: I’ve never understood Univision but now more than ever, I definitely want to try. At first it was because of youth and I lived in an English-dominant exterior and preferred the neighbor’s MTV. Then, it was because […]

This is why it is always best to think before you retweet a Romney "twat" tweet to 4.4 million followers when you are a co-chair of the Obama for America campaign. Millions of people are watching and the conservative social media outrage machine that has become its own industry is ready to pounce on you. That […]

As the curtains draw open tonight at the Poets Den Theater in El Barrio, New York City – the spotlight will unquestionably shine brightly on Luis Antonio Ramos, one of the most talented Latino actors to grace the stage and screen over the past 30 years. Growing up Gonzales, the one-man play written by Felix Rojas, […]

On January 15th, 2009, 11-year-old Malala Yousafzai wrote on her BBC blog, “The night was filled with the noise of artillery fire and I woke up three times. But since there was no school I got up later at 10 am. Today, I also read the diary written for the BBC (in Urdu) and published in the […]

Less than two days after the YouTube channel of Gisela Valentin uploaded a video of a Philadelphia police officer punching a women following the city's Puerto Rican Day Parade, the video has already gotten over 900,000 views as of this posting. UPDATE: the original video can no longer be embedded, so we had to use […]

This just in from @Kyoks1 on Twitter, who shared a screen capture of following Yahoo! News ad with us. We were given little context, but the image speaks for itself. Of all the images in the world that would speak to a news ad that talks about balanced coverage, why choose this one? What is […]

This just in from Philadelphia, as reported by Philly.com: The Philadelphia Police Department this morning opened an internal affairs investigation into an officer who was captured on video punching a woman in the face during Sunday's Puerto Rican Day parade. The department had no immediate comment on the video, which depicts an unidentified police officer […]

It looks like the Kennedy Center finally got the message. Yesterday the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) received an apology from Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser for his unprofessional response about why the center hadn't honored that many Latinos in the history of its organization. Kaiser had initially told the NHFA's Felix Sanchez […]

Last week, we were one of many pages to report how the Kennedy Center once again ignored worthy Latino candidates in choosing its list of 2012 Kennedy Center Honors recipients. Along with several Latino media sites, the story was also covered by national outlets such as NPS, POLITICO, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington […]

We don't like Hispanic Heritage Month. We never have and we never will. Our reason is simple: all of a sudden people, brands, and organizations who have no idea or clue about the complexities of the US Latino world try to pretend that they do. Case in point: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Here is […]

If you are in the Southern California area this Friday September 14 and want to do something a little different, head over to the Museum of Latin American Art at 7pm and catch what looks to be a very cool night. First off, the screening of the short documentary VIVA LUCHA LIBRE to be followed by […]

This morning in Washington, the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) released the results of a national poll "showing that media portrayals of Latinos and immigrants are fueling rampant negative stereotypes among the general population that are diminishing perceptions of these groups throughout the United States." The full report can be downloaded here. The poll, which was conducted […]

Yesterday, the website LuisFortuno.com, which used to be the official website of Puerto Rican governor Luis Fortuño's campaign in 2008, appears to have a new owner: Fortuño's major political opponent, the Popular Democratic Party (PPD). The election for governor is this November, and the PPD is pulling no punches. Here is a screen grab of […]

Early in August, we reported a story about how an Indonesian ad agency published the following ad campaign for Daktarin Foot Powder. Depicting a sleeping barefoot Mexican in a saloon while others are covering their faces with bandanas and fans. A few days after we published the image (which we received from @RayoSaucedo), the ad […]

You would think that the leaders of Puerto Rico's pro-statehood party, the New Progressive Party (PNP), would just tell all their officials and supporters to stop using social media until AFTER this November's gubernatorial election and poetical status plebiscite.  You would think that the PNPers should just stop tweeting after one of their own, Zaida […]

Who would have thought that a little WordPress blog post from Rockstar GOP would lead to coverage by both Think Progress and NBC? But it happened. The reason? It had a little bit of everything: a delegate to the Republican National Convention, a pre-convention trip to Epcot, and a little bit of straight-out stone-cold anti-Mexican racism. […]

This morning in Lakeland, at the official sendoff rally for Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, reporters from people at the scene confirmed that a group of undocumented DREAMers protested Romney and were greeted with chants of "USA! USA!" as they were escorted away. The first news was reported on Twitter by @ZekeJMiller of Buzzfeed, who […]

Looks like Arizona Republican candidate for US Congress Gabriela Saucedo Mercer is back in the news. This time, it is not about plagiarized quotes about food stamps. Now Saucedo Mercer, who is running against Democrat Raúl Grijalva, for Arizona's District 3, has things to say about "Middle Easterners." Here is what CBS Baltimore posted: “If […]

Now there are conflicting stories, one saying that the boos and chants  of “USA! USA!” by some Republican delegates today in Tampa were all about trying to seat some Ron Paul delegates after RNC chair Reince Preibus had called for a vote to unseat them. However, whether it was irony or just plain ignoranace, all […]

This past Friday, Omaha Channel 94.1's "The Big Morning Party Show" was slammed on its Facebook page regarding comments it made surrounding the murder of 63-year-old Gilberto Hérnandez Vázquez, a local paletero man (ice cream man), who was killed on Thursday night. After the comments were broadcast, the station's Facebook page was inundated with criticisms about what was […]

This morning Omaha's Channel 94.1 crew was doing its news segment, when the show's personalities began to talk about the murder of 63-year-old Gilberto Hernández Vázquez, a beloved "paletero man" who roamed an Omaha neighborhood for 11 years. Here is what the morning show decided to talk about after they shared an update about Hernández […]