Race

The data suggests that the Hispanic community is very concerned with policy brutality, largely due to their personal experience with excessive force.

Latino Rebels Radio: July 22, 2020

It is long overdue that these realities be noted and discussed in order to be transformed.

YR Media and Latino USA bring you a discussion with four young adults from all racial backgrounds to discuss what it means to be an effective ally in the fight to end anti-Blackness.

In America, police brutality is often viewed in a Black and White narrative leaving Indigenous, Latino, and other people of color out of the conversation.

More than five decades later, the struggle against police brutality is still relevant today.

The latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio.

In this episode of Latino USA, Maria Hinojosa speaks to CNN journalist Omar Jimenez about his path into journalism and what was running through his mind while he was getting arrested while reporting live.

As a nation, we will not find effective ways of addressing issues of race if we continue viewing it predominantly or simply in Black and White.

Latino Rebels spoke with Fran Tirado and Eliel Cruz recently about the process of organizing the march, what comes next for the movement for trans Black lives, and the importance of allyship.

During Monday’s legislative session on the floor Puerto Rico’s House of Representatives —and in the midst of a global movement for Black Lives— a Puerto Rican legislature uttered the N-word, in defense of a former talk show host who lost his job for uttering the N-word last week on air.

Nearly all (89%) respondents agree with the statement that they “understand the pain and frustration that the Black community feels right now with law enforcement because Latinos face similar experiences with law enforcement.”

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Protesters tore down more statues across the United States, expanding the razing in a San Francisco park to the writer of America’s national anthem and the general who won the country’s Civil War that ended widespread slavery.

In conversation with Maria Hinojosa, Edwidge Danticat reached back to several cases of police violence against Black men and women in New York City in the ’80s and ’90s, cases that echo the current moment.

Latino Rebels has contacted both WAPA-TV and “Lo sé todo” about the clip in question. As of this posting, nobody from the network or the show has returned messages for comments. 

“Upon investigating his broadcast, Univision has immediately terminated its contract with Mr. Colon and canceled his program. We deeply regret the utterance of this slur on our air in Puerto Rico,” a Univision Communications statement said.

ATLANTA (AP) — Prosecutors brought murder charges Wednesday against the white Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks in the back, saying that the black man posed no deadly threat and that the officer kicked him and offered no medical treatment for over 2 minutes as he lay dying on the ground.

Today on Latino USA, a story from over 100 years ago, when an intrepid Texas state representative named José Tomás Canales led an investigation into the abuses of the Texas Rangers.

Race in Puerto Rico has always been associated with phenotype and ancestry. The false discourse of “we’re all mixed” has led to systemic racism being dismissed or reduced to phenotype.

‘La Comay’ has a long history of spreading racist, homophobic and transphobic propaganda, the HRC statement said.

Some Texas cities are eyeing cuts to police department budgets to fund social services like housing assistance, mental health services and job training.