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Now THIS is a cool story. Well, not for Blazers ex-coach Nate McMillan, who was let go yesterday by the team, but for Kaleb Canales, who was named interim coach. And we think he is the first Mexican American to lead an NBA team. We did research it, but the only nugget we found was […]

Tonight, the Office of Public and Media Relations for the NCAA responded to our request regarding a "Where's Your Green Card?" chant made this afternoon by members of the Southern Mississippi pep band and directed at Kansas State freshman guard Ángel Rodríguez, who was born in Puerto Rico and is an American citizen. The quote […]

Before we share Rick Santorum's Thursday comments he made to CNN that defended the position he made to EL VOCERO about how English should be a requirement if Puerto Rico were to become the 51st state of the United States, we wanted to share a meme that we created to give Santorum a history lesson: […]

Freedom of speech is a unique American right. To be fully free in this society, you must allow for speech that pisses you off or hate speech.  But even though it is allowed, you also have the right to express your outrage against racist crap. Granted, we understand that many Americans don't like the President […]

Southern Mississippi President Dr. Martha Saunders released a statement addressing the "Where is your Green Card?" chants from their pep band directed at Puerto Rican-born and Kansas State point guard Ángel Rodríguez during the first round of a NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament today: We deeply regret the remarks made by a few students at today’s game. […]

This is truly March Madness. Today, in the first round of the 2012 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, the Southern Mississippi band was chanting "Where's Your Green Card?" as Kansas State's Angel Rodríguez was at the free throw line. Rodríguez is of Puerto Rican descent. Last time we checked, Puerto Ricans are American citizens. Small detail. Here is […]

Let the pandering begin. Just hours after giving an interview where he told a Puerto Rican newspaper that English must be a requirement for Puerto Rico’s entry into the Union as a 51st state (even though Santorum forgot that both Spanish and English are the island’s two official languages), Politco reported that GOP presidential candidate […]

José A. Delgado, the Washington correspondent for El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico's largest newspaper, tweeted that Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi (a non-voting member of the US Congress), a Democrat who is also a member of the island's pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP) will not be attending a local PNP rally tomorrow that will […]

This picture is real. It was taken at a recent Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) school board meeting. It shows an TUSD security guard using a metal detector on a child before allowing the child to enter the school board meeting. In the background, another guard is scanning an adult. As independent journalists, we have […]

The GOP presidential race just got even weirder the last two days, and Puerto Rico is right at the center of it. With a GOP primary scheduled for Sunday March 18 in Puerto Rico—a US territory (most say colony) since 1898 and a place where its residents have been US citizens since 1917—the quest for […]

Palabras are powerful. You don’t have to look too far to find great examples and we were fortunate to find this gem written by Juneau, Alaska raised Christy Namee Eriksen titled, “What Does An Illegal Immigrant Look Like?’ A beautiful poem that challenges you to think and see undocumented immigrants as anything but the stereotypes […]

The Luis Fortuño GOP VP Campaign made an appearance on CNN tonight, and the pro-statehood and Republican governor of Puerto Rico said two very telling things tonight when he spoke with Wolf Blitzer. (Sidenote to Wolf: Fortuño is not "popular." Do your homework about the Governor and about Puerto Ricans in general.) The GOP is doing […]

The following are the original tweets in Spanish from the official Twitter account of Los Tigres del Norte, one of the world's most popular bands, and some of the recent reactions by Mexican social media profiles regarding the decision by the city of Chihuahua to censor the band from the city for playing "for playing […]

You knew it was going to get ugly and ugly quick on the island nation of Puerto Rico, the modern-day Macondo. While the island faces critical social and economic issues that border on the situation in Greece, according to reports, the campaign of pro-statehood and Republican governor Luis Fortuño has sunk to new levels. Take […]

One week after #Kony2012 took over the Internet, several theories and videos the question the campaign and its intentions have appeared just as quickly. We did find one that many have been sharing with us, and as far as theories go, it is just a theory, yet it provides an alternative motive as to why […]

We got this from a fellow Twitter follower, who runs the blog BELIEVING IN AFRICA. She tweeted the following image to us, which originally appeared on her post. Yes, there is another side to all this. You decide for yourself, although the image here is very well-sourced (World Bank, UN). About Believing In Africa Researcher (market & […]

Just five days ago (has it been that long?), we posted an initial piece about the social media phenomenon of #Kony2012 and #StopKony. It was our most visited blog post of 2012, earning unprecedented interest worldwide. We think this interest was caused by the fact that as with any Internet phenomenon, while millions of people […]

This morning, the Tucson Weekly reported the following Facebook post from Tucson Unified School District governing board member Michael Hicks. Hicks, who is facing a new recall effort for his positions to eliminate TUSD's Ethnic Studies program, urged his Facebook community to stop the Three Sonorans blog, whom Hicks calls "raciest." Good to see school leaders […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON NYCLATINOPOLITICS Posted on March 9, 2012 by Julio Pabon March 8 was a beautiful evening. Springlike temperature and it was still light at 5:30pm when over 100 Boricuas, Dominicans, Mexicans, Afro-Americans & Anglos came out to support our protest against ABC-TV. It was almost like a family reunion after a two week […]

After chatting back and forth with Daily Kos @Markos about racist Cafepress ads that appeared on his site, one suggestion was to connect with Google, who manages the ad service Daily Kos uses on its site. Granted, even though @Markos did say Daily Kos would block the offensive ads and thanked us for alerting him, […]

As reported by The Los Angeles Times and other outlets, chants of "USA! USA!" directed at a predominantly Latino high school basketball team from San Antonio led to a formal complaint by the school and an apology from the superintendent of Alamo Heights, whose fans had initiated the chant. This is what the Times reported: […]