Injustice

This is the next installment of a human storytelling experience. The first piece, Alejandro López’s story of living with HIV, can be found here. About a year ago, Gawker ran a series of “Letters from Death Row,” which featured one from Ray Jasper. In Jasper’s letter, he made several claims on the state of America’s prisons […]

Those who ignore history are doomed to look ridiculous. First, I’d like to give props to the Associated Press’ Matt Lee for showing how journalists can still serve the indispensable role of keeping a society, if not free, then at least accurate. When State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki told him something blatantly untrue during a […]

On the morning of February 11, in a park in the city of Santiago, Dominican Republic, a Haitian man was found hanging from a tree. Bound hand and foot, the corpse of Jean Baptiste Harry has prompted special investigations, incited fiery protests on both sides of Hispañola and become the flashpoint in an international debate […]

Max Villatoro, a long time Iowa resident, is currently at the brink of deportation. The Mennonite pastor, and father of four U.S. citizen children, was picked up by ICE last week as he headed to work early in the morning. Since then, the Iowa community has rallied behind Max and his family, ensuring that every […]

There is a most unusual TV interview of Gov. Luis Muñoz Marín on YouTube. The interview occurred in March 1954, just after the Nationalist attack on U.S. Congress that was led by Lolita Lebrón. (NOTE: This video was shared on Facebook by the Fundación Luis Muñoz Marín in 2013.) During that time, Muñoz Marín had […]

Yesterday we received the following statement from #Not1More organizers regarding the news that individuals eligible for DACA and DAPA are still being deported even when President Obama told a national TV audience the following: “And so, even as people should be preparing their paperwork so that when the time comes that they can apply, in […]

This weekend, our founder @julito77 (who is also the Digital Media Director for Futuro Media Group, producers of NPR’s LatinoUSA) was part of a very honest radio discussion with Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa and political strategist Alida García about why national mainstream Latino civil rights organizations (read NCLR, MALDEF, LULAC) have been pretty silent […]

In just 13 minutes last night, John Oliver did more for all those U.S. territories than any politician ever has done in a century. Watch.

The shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in Pasco, Washington, last month has led another family to share troubling details about the death of Brad Jensen, which happened last year in Pasco. Here is the report from local media. NBC Right Now/KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA | For more, read here.

This the text of a March 3 letter delivered from Consejo Latino in Pasco to Shawn Sant, the prosecutor for Franklin County, Washington, regarding the shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes. Consejo Latino 900 North Road 64 Pasco, WA 99301 3 March 2015 Mr. Shawn Sant Prosecutor Franklin County Pasco, Washington 99301 Re: Police Shooting – […]

We turned our readers onto Kansas City band Making Movies a couple of years ago, and it looks like they’re continuing to tell stories of the Latino experience—not only through their music, but via community involvement and in sharing the stories of friends and fans they’ve made while touring. Recently, Making Movies connected with the […]

We received the following released this weekend, and we would like to share it (we also added photos from today’s action in Phoenix): National Week of Action calling for release of transgender asylum seeker from abusive immigration detention center What: #FreeNicoll National Week of Action When: Monday March 2 through Thursday March 5 Where: Phoenix, […]

In response to the Jessica Hérnandez autopsy released yesterday by the Denver medical examiner, Hérnandez family attorney Qusair Mohamedbhai shared the following statement with the media last night: The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner has classified the death of Jessica Hérnandez as a homicide. The report shows that Jessie was shot from the driver’s […]

Today, Democracy Now! did a longer segment on the shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes.

This is CNN video from this morning of Consejo Latino leader Felix Vargas discussing the latest in the shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in Pasco, Washington.

The Background Shortly after its December release, I interviewed filmmaker Seven King about his documentary The Rebirth of Paris. King’s documentary is an homage to Paris is Burning. The Interview I asked King a few questions centered on the state of the ballroom scene, the connection between the “older” and “newer” generation of artists, as […]

This is the full release shared today by the attorney representing the widow and two daughters of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, whose shooting death in Pasco, Washington, has begun to get more attention in U.S. media outlets. #PascoShooting Statement from Attorney of Zambrano-Montes Family This is the autopsy image shared in the attorney’s release:

Two days after Consejo Latino leaders in Pasco, Washington, met with Department of Justice officials in response to a letter they sent to the DOJ last week surrounding the shooting death of Antonio Zambrano Montes, the American Civil Liberties Union formally supported the civic group’s request for a federal investigation. Here is a copy of […]

I am a Chileno queer Southerner who was brought up by feminists at home and in the movement. I am undocumented, cisgender and identify as male. My family came to Virginia when I was 7 years old. I currently live in Richmond, Virginia, and have been in this state since we first moved to the […]

Earlier today, one of our Twitter followers sent us this tweet: Roswell, NM newspaper publishes cartoon this week suggesting Blacks and Latinos leave town: http://t.co/54P6CoMn6d — Mónica Ortiz Uribe (@MOrtizUribe) February 18, 2015 So we clicked on the link, which took us to the site of the Roswell Daily Record and this editorial cartoon: That […]

The following video shows an unidentified man who says he witnessed the shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in Pasco, Washington. The man says he saw the officers killed Zambrano-Montes in “cold blood.” The YouTube information for the video says this: Eye witness to the 2/10/2015 shooting in Pasco, WA tells his story of the police […]