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Two days ago, the Twitter feed of former NBA star and current TNT Sports analyst Shaquille O'Neal hinted on Twitter that he might address the surrounding controversy regarding an encounter with a Puerto Rican sports reporter during All-Star Weekend in Orlando. Today on Twitter, after several tweets late Sunday night and more tweets on Tuesday […]

Today, Maricopa Country Sheriff Joe Arpaio held a press conference where he claimed (along with his Cold Case Posse) that President Obama's birth certificate is a forgery. Here are video segments of the press conference embedded from ABC15.com. Already on Facebook, the conspiracy theories and opinions are out in full bloom.  

A huge kudos to our friends at Pocho.com, the comedic talent behind @MexicanMitt. Looks like America's First Latino President-to-Be now has a theme song. ¡Ajúa!   From Pocho.Com (CREDITS: Mexican Mitt Romney for President (The Musical) Lyrics and vocals by Chris Garcia with assistance from Lalo Alcaraz chrisgarciacomedy.com Music by DJ Real djrealsmells.com Directed and […]

In 21st century America, the new racism is as follows: Share racist content. Admit it is racist. Then deny you are not a racist and it was just a misunderstanding. The latest example is Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull, who, according to a report by the Great Falls Tribune in Montana, admitted that he […]

Thinking that the whole CafePress Anti-Mexican mess was over after the latest snafu (F*ck Illegals), we wanted to go back to the site and make sure that one of the world's top websites was closely enforcing its process again. The first thing we did was check over the company's content policy, which we posted here […]

UPDATE: Around 7pm EST, the "F*ck Illegals" section has been taken down. Looks like CafePress needs more employees or better servers, because they truly have some very suspect filtering systems. Our staff spent a little more time on the site today to see what other products they are selling, and after a reader suggested we enter the […]

TNT Sports analyst and former NBA star Shaquille O'Neal returned to Twitter today to address the ongoing controversy surrounding alleged comments that he made against Puerto Rico to a sports reporter from the island's Tiro Al Blanco sports show. Late Sunday night, Shaq was actively tweeting and denying reports from TAB's Emilio Pérez. After posting a […]

Around 7pm EST today, we reported that CafePress issued a statement about the article we wrote about its "Anti-Mexican Gifts" section, and when an astute reader check the page, the "Anti-Mexican Gifts" section was taken down. Nonetheless, another reader alerted us that CafePress still has an "Anti=Mexico Gifts" section, and that section is still up […]

Last night, the Rebeldes posted the following piece about CafePress' "Anti-Mexican Gifts" section. The piece generated some very quick social media buzz and reaction, and tonight  the PR agency for CafePress sent us the following statement:  As you may know, CafePress is an automated e-commerce service that allows users to upload merchandise designs into online shops and/or the […]

The following is ROUGH ENGLISH TRANSCRIPT and OVERALL SUMMARY of the interview between Rocky the Kid (@rockythekid), Billy Forquet and Emilio Pérez of @tabpr yesterday morning on El Despelote on La Nueva 94 in Puerto Rico. Pérez was the reporter who had an alleged incident with TNT analyst Shaquille O'Neal, Pérez claims that Shaq said […]

Here is the broadcast segment from Monday morning's "El Despelote" show on la Nueva 94 in Puerto Rico. The broadcast is in Spanish, and the hosts interview Emilio Pérez, the reporter from Tiro al Blanco who describes his encounter with Shaquille O'Neal during the NBA's All-Star Weekend in Orlando. We will have an English transcript […]

UPDATE: CafePress has eliminated this page section from their site. Cafepress.com is one of the world's "customized" online shopping destinations. The idea is a simple one: create your own designs, upload them, make them into t-shirts, cups, bumper stickers, etc., and sell away. According to its site, "CafePress.com today ships over 6 million products annually, and […]

A report out of La Nueva 94 in Puerto Rico states that ex-NBA star and TNT personality Shaquille O'Neal had some choice words for the island, during NBA All-Star Game festivities this weekend in Orlando. This is what La Nueva 94 is claiming  that Shaq said to Emilio Pérez, a Puerto Rican sports talk personality of […]

Rebelde Charlie Vázquez breaks down this weekend's LibroTraficante event in New York City. For more information about how you can help, go to LibroTraficante.com. Writer and literary activist Charlie Vázquez talks about the Librotraficante project, the banning of Latino Studies materials in Arizona and how a similar book ban would affect Nuyoricans and those of […]

Though initially I wanted to follow the Tucson Unified School District's ban on Mexican studies classes and related books, as it unraveled, given the many conflicting versions and accounts of what was taking place, I gave up on covering it altogether. That was until yesterday when I decided to attend a presentation by Librotraficante at John Jay College in Manhattan. […]

This one is personal. When our boss @julito77 began his professional career as an editor in 1991, the call for authentic US Latino literature was just in its infancy, and one of the goals in the education space was to promote this literature to the K-12 world. In his early years, Julito helped to commission […]

UnivsionNews posted a teaser of what will surely be a very intense and heated interview this Sunday on Al Punto. Here is a video clip (in English) where Jorge Ramos interviews Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In this segment, Arpaio says that he will reveal more information about President Obama's birth certificate on March 1 […]

Blogging attracts like-minded folks just as much as dissenting foes. It is part of the game, and in my own experience, the criticism I have received (of any kind) is always better than indifference. Yes, I have been criticized by Latinos from all sides with much of the criticism and/or disagreement ending up in a mutual respect. After […]

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  The official TipsyCake Facebook page offered this statement from Owner Naomi Levine. This was posted today around 3:15 EST. TipsyCake Dear Fans I would like to sincerely apologize to the Humboldt Park Community for my insensitive comments made in the City Soles interview that was posted on our Facebook page on February 21st With […]

The last 12 hours have been a bit heady in the social media story of Tipsy Cake, whose owner sparked a controversy with comments about life in Chicago's Humboldt Park. This afternoon, a community press conference/protest/boycott was held and according to live tweets from @hijorge, the scene was "intense" and many business owners and students […]