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GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB"   By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican actor Amaury Nolasco’s character Angel, uttered the egregious statement on national TV, “I’m Puerto Rican, I’d be great […]

The Twitter silence for Puerto Rican actor Amaury Nolasco is over. The actor, whose ABC show "Work It" face a social media controversy for a line about Puerto Rican drug deal ears, tweeted out an apology today around 5pm EST. The apology appeared on Nolasco's stream in both English and Spanish. It was more than […]

Originally posted on NYC LATINO POLITICS. Boricuas for a Positive Image will join the NYC Chapter of  the Labor Council of Latin American Advancement on Thursday January 12 at 5:30 pm at the front of the ABC Building on 66th and Columbus in New York City. Here is a video of the initial demonstration from […]

  Originally appeared on EdMorales.net. Reprinted with permission of the author. Ed Morales is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral politics, police brutality, street gangs, grassroots activists, and the Latino arts and music scene.  He has been a Latin music Newsday columnist and longtime Village Voice contributing writer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York […]

When we launched this web page on May 5, 2011, we issued the following mission statement that we would like to share again since this last week has been a crazy ride of new visits, new readers, new cross-links and new connections. As with any content page, when people show up late to the party, they […]

Before the Puerto Rican community started reacting to ABC and the critically-panned 'Work It" sitcom (somewhere the Original "Bosom Buddies" Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari are shaking their heads about how the new show is basically a much less witty show that TV's original cross-dressing comedy), the LGBT community was already issuing statements about how […]

UnivisionNews posted this video on their YouTube site that presents us with GOP Republican candidate Mitt Romney's primos. What do you think? Pandering or authentic?

So, last week, someone posted a video of two young girls from Arizona with anti-Mexican racist rants that spiraled throughout the Internet and showed a lot of what is wrong in this country for US Latinos in the 21st century.   Now the two young girls have issued a "video apology." They were drunk. Your thoughts? […]

This just in from the New York City chapter of the Labor Council on Latin American Advancement: The New York City Labor Council on Latin American Advancement has called for a demonstration against ABC's portayal of Puerto Ricans as "good drug dealers" on their show "Work It." The gathering will be this Thursday. When: This […]

The videos are in, and the response has been a wave of positivity towards the true essence of what it is to be a human being living in the 21st century. Today, the Puerto Rican Alliance for Awareness, a group formed to "bring awareness to the negative stereotyping of all groups," has announced that Dr. […]

Every cause has an effect, and when media was limited and owned by a select few, effects that came out of the causes were easier to control and shape. Now that everyone has a camera, a smartphone, wifi, social networks, friends, followers, email, texts, uploads, downloads, the old media is dead. It is not coming […]

An online change.org petition has been formed by @BellaVidaLetty asking that ABC apologize for the 'Work It" January 3 premiere. Here is the text of the letter. If you would like to sign it, you can go here and SIGN THE PETITION. You can also share it. It takes only 30 seconds.   ABC apologize […]

Granted, when we first posted our initial piece about the now infamous Puerto Rican Drug Dealer Joke from the January 3 ABC premiere of "Work It," we suggested that the original joke must have been written in a sarcastic tone and that when the following scene was recorded, the sarcasm of the joke's original intent […]

The recent controversy surrounding ABC's 'Work It" sitcom has created a social media firestorm and tomorrow, Sunday January 8, in Chicago, a film crew is inviting all people of Puerto Rico to educate and let people know that they don't sell drugs. Here are the details from Puerto Rican actor Darlene Vazquetelles, and director Carlos Jiménez, who […]

We are going to say very little about the following video, which has spread throughout the Internet this week. We will say that the reaction has been so strong and negative, there was talk of police action, but in the end, the Phoenix police can't start arresting people because others don't agree with them. With […]

The following statement, released today by New York State Assemblyman José Rivera, addresses the controversy surroudning ABC's January 3 broadcast of the network's new sitcom, "Work It," which contained a joke about Puerto Ricans as drug dealers that has caused a grassroots movement by New York's Puerto Rican community asking that ABC apologize for airing […]

Today, during a Three Kings Day celebration in Puerto Rico, Pedro Pierluisi, the island's Resident Commissioner and a non-voting member of the US House of Representatives, specifically called out Puerto Rican actor Amaury Nolasco for his portrayal of Angel on the January 3 airing of ABC's "Work It" premiere. Pierlusi's comments were published in Spanish on […]

What was just five seconds of air time on a major network has turned into a social media campaign within 48 hours among the Puerto Rican social network. Just days after the ABC sitcom "Work It" premiered, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and the Latino blogosphere have been buzzing about a toss-away joke that equates Puerto Ricans […]

First of all, there is only one reason why we are even blogging about ABC’s “Work It,” a new Bosom Buddies ripoff sitcom that is getting trashed by critics. The premise is awful, the jokes are stale, and it has no originality. Like we said, we wouldn’t even give this show any more notice if […]

This is one deportation case where being humane should trump anything else. If you are not moved by this woman's story and her love of her husband, then this country is clearly in trouble. Please take a moment to click here and sign the petition. This one is special to us. SIGN THE PETITION HERE […]

He is entering his 30th year as a political prisoner in the United States, and even after he served another 10 years as a condition of a commuted sentence by President Bill Clinton, Puerto Rico's Oscar López Rivera is still in jail. It is time to free him. Please share, post, and let your friends […]