Injustice

A conversation with Alynda Segarra of Hurray For The Riff Raff about music, politics and being Puerto Rican

Signs hung in a North Carolina high school reading “Illegals, Go Home” have caused a stir on the Internet

How Venezuela’s deportation policy is like Donald Trumps, and how it is not

How the Puerto Rican media runs away from the truth

While the American media has been obsessing over Donald Trump, here is what’s been happening in Guatemala

What the Trump campaign really means when it says it wants to “Make America Great Again”

The Rebeldes get together to discuss the Latino media’s role in covering Donald Trump’s campaign

Behind the doors of U.S. immigration detention centers lies a world of human rights abuses and political influencing

One Puerto Rican mother’s strong rebuff of the lazy moocher stereotype

A beautiful Michael Jackson cover and the struggles to preserve indigenous cultures

Just when you thought the story of Jorge Ramos getting kicked out of a Trump press conference was terrible enough

Univision’s Jorge Ramos squared off with GOP candidate Donald Trump in Iowa

A 2017 open letter to President Donald Trump

El 4 de febrero de 2014, una serie de protestas comenzaron en Venezuela contra el gobierno presidido por Nicolás Maduro, dejando un saldo de 42 fallecidos, más de 486 heridos y 1854 detenidos, entre ellos, Leopoldo López. En momentos como éste, son los estudiantes, los activistas, los mártires, y por supuesto, los artistas, que sacan la cara […]

With the GOP presidential frontrunner spreading hate and fear, the violence is inevitable. Donald Trump inspired the assault of a homeless Hispanic man yesterday in Dorchester Mass. http://t.co/smoMjxsqMW pic.twitter.com/WNTsWIYms5 — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 20, 2015 From the Boston Globe: Police said two brothers from South Boston ambushed the 58-year-old as he slept outside of […]

Donald Trump seems utterly incapable of two things: promoting a nuanced political argument and finding a decent hair stylist. One is an assault on the eyes; the other, a threat to the fundamental principles of this country. With Trump having thrown his toupée into the ring, a debate over birthright citizenship was practically inevitable. But The Donald isn’t […]

Many people are unaware of just how dark a flourishing and shady police subculture really is. Police brutality has been brought to the forefront of society, perhaps due to the influx of social media usage and smartphones. Today we are catching gross violations of the law carried out by police officers who have been sworn […]

Puerto Ricans are the most marginalized citizens in the United States, and that goes double for members of the Puerto Rican diaspora. Mainland Puerto Ricans are often denied the right to speak about the issues affecting an island whose inhabitants are denied the right to decide their own issues to begin with. When mainlanders say they support Puerto […]

A year ago, Mexico seemed to be on the verge of a profound transformation of its political system. During the months of October and November of 2014, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets on numerous occasions in a vast uprising against impunity and for social justice. The forced disappearance of 43 student […]

Trauma-induced bigotry is an all-too-common but rarely acknowledged phenomenon. An act committed by a person of a certain race or ethnicity leads the victim or their family members to resent all people of that culture. A critical thinker can easily look past a person’s skin color and accept that one person who commits a crime does not […]

In Latino literature and film, a common narrative is assimilation, where the protagonist wrestles with preserving the “traditional value” of the old world while embracing the “progress and enlightenment” of the new. By the end, even as the protagonist learns to appreciate and respect the values of their elders, what they really embrace and love are […]