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Is it any coincidence that on the day that the latest Latino Decisions poll has Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney down 53 points in a weekly tracking poll of US Latino voters, Romney gives an interview with The Denver Post and basically says that he would honor President Obama's deferred action executive order that allows for […]

  The White House issued the following bilingual press release today. President Obama to Establish César E. Chávez National Monument On October 8th, 2012, President Obama will travel to Keene, California to announce the establishment of the César E. Chávez National Monument. Years in the making, the monument – which will be designated under the […]

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 […]

Sometimes, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. In the case of our coverage about how the Kennedy Center once again ignored worthy Latino candidates like Carlos Santana, Rita Moreno, Joan Baez, and many others, we mentioned in our initial report that the only two Latino honorees in the 35-year history […]

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 […]

As Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio faces another re-election bid in November, social media is beginning to raise more and more awareness about how America's Toughest Sheriff has become not only one of the most polarizing officials in this country, but also a law enforcement official who overlooked some very serious crimes as he became […]

Last week, Massachusetts senator Scott Brown (R), who is facing a tough re-election bid against Elizabeth Warren (D), spent an hour talking with 96.9 Boston Talks' "Jim and Margery Show." The interview covered many topics, but we have to thank the show's hosts for asking Brown about his positions on immigration. The following three-minute clip touches […]

This story came to our attention after seeing the following meme shared by our friends at Cuéntame: We did a little more digging and came cross this post: LETTER FROM ICE DIRECTOR JOHN MORTON TO HATE GROUP, FAIR, STIRS CONTROVERSY. Here is what the post from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) had to […]

Now that Arizona's "Show me your papers" provision of the controversial SB 1070 is now in effect, those who continue to question the provision's intent are using YouTube to record how police are enacting the law.  Below is one video that a family made when the family's mother was pulled over by the Mesa police.

Why do we love YouTube? Because there is always original and new content showing up by the minute. Here is a bilingual song by Chico Méndez called "My Immigration Status." Since it was uploaded on late last week, it has gotten over 17,000 views and counting. Talk about honesty. Paz, Chico. Here is what Chico […]

Here is something you might not know. What do the following people have in common? Rita Hayworth, Ricardo Montalbán, Celia Cruz, Anthony Quinn, Raúl Juliá, José Ferrer, Rita Moreno, Joan Baez, Carlos Santana, Rubén Blades, Julio Iglesias, Gloria Estefan, Edward James Olmos. According to the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) and the National […]

Why did Ozzie Guillen even have to weigh on the Yunel Escobar story? On Tuesday, Escobar, who plays for the Toronto Blue Jays, was suspended for three games for having the gay slur "maricón" on his eye black. Escobar claimed cultural ignorance, saying that Latino ballplayers use that term all the time. Yes, "maricón" does have […]

Yesterday, the Twitter account of filmmaker Michael Moore decided to create a new hashtag called #IfOnlyIWereMexican. The tweet was in reference to the secret Mitt Romney video clip (which we published last week on this page) where Romney is attempting to be funny by claiming that he wished he were Latino .  Now that Mother […]

CityNews Toronto has posted today's entire press conference in New York, where Toronto Blue Jay shortstop Yunel Escobar apologized for displaying the Spanish word "maricón" on his eye black. Escobar was suspended three days without pay by the Blue Jays. The video shows the entire context of what Escobar said in Spanish and how his […]

Today, Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar was suspended three games by the team for wearing eye black that contain a gay slur in Spanish, several outlets reported this afternoon. The eye black said "Tu ere maricón." The word "maricón" is considered by many Spanish speakers to be a gay slur, and even though the eye […]

We just received the following press statement from Citizens for Professional Law Enforcement (CFPLE). BIPARTISAN COALITION LAUNCHES COMMITTEE TO DEFEAT SHERIFF JOE ARPAIO  Phoenix — Citizens for Professional Law Enforcement (CFPLE), a bipartisan group of elected officials, civic and business leaders today announced its effort to end the corrupt practices of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. “For far […]

FYI, Cecily Strong isn’t even Latina. Yes, we know: we really want NBC's SNL to actually start producing Latino-themed comedy that is actually good. We love it when SNL gets all political, but when it comes to Latino humor, the show has been missing the mark since… forever. This is what happens when your writing staff […]

In essence, the Yahoo! sports piece that Kevin Kaduk wrote this evening about Toronto Blue Jay shortstop Yunel Escobar is spot on accurate. The screen shot from the piece clearly shows the eye black on Escobar's face say "Tu ere maricón," which is a gay slur in places like Cuba (where Escobar was born), the Dominican […]

Yes, the War on Drugs has been a failure. Now what do we do? (H/T to Online Criminal Justice Degree)

Today, Mitt Romney's "Hispanderfiesta Radar" was on high alert. With just 50 days left to go until the presidential elections and new poll numbers show that the Romney campaign has done very little to improve his standing among US Latino voters (especially US Latina voters), today was clearly a "Hispanic" day for the campaign. First […]