Injustice

Today the University of Southern Mississippi published the following article on their site in response to the "Where's Your Green Card?" chants directed at Kansas State's Ángel Rodríguez during the first round of the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. University Takes Disciplinary Action Against Pep Band Students The University of Southern Mississippi has completed a review […]

I experienced a cultural epiphany a couple of weeks ago that has been bothering me increasingly since. I spend my days working as a project manager for a regional bank in the Midwest; the same type of work I’ve been performing over the past 15+ years on both sides of the Atlantic. Communicating, both personally and professionally in […]

Today, the Librotraficantes have reached their destination: Tucson, Arizona. The Librotraficantes appeared this morning on local Tucson TV. Here is the recording we made for news gathering purposes since the local TV station doesn't have an embed feature. "The whole idea is that Arizona legislators tried to erase our history, we've decided to create more […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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: […]

Yesterday, as reported by the New Haven Register, East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo, known on the Internet as the "Taco Mayor," got an unpleasant and confrontational reception during his announcement of a Latino expo. “This is an opportunity to reach out to him because he’s been hiding from the office. He’s been telling us that […]

UPDATE: @Markos answered our questions aorund 3pm EST on Friday March 9. Around noon today, @Markos, the founder of DailyKos, commented on our on post about a racist "SPICS" Ad from CafePress, which had cycled into their Google ad stream last night on the Kos site. According to its founder, Markos said that Daily Kos […]

UPDATE, 1pm EST: Daily Kos founder @Markos has told us (see below or click on link) that advertiser will be blocked and he thanked us for bringing this to their attention. Last night, we reported the news that automated "customized" CafePress racist ads appeared on the Daily Kos website, and that such type of advertising […]

Here is the original piece: #NoMames ALERT: Now @dailykos Displays @CafePress “Anti-Mexican” and “Spic” Ads on Daily Kos Site http://is.gd/IL0kc5