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UPDATE, 2:30 EST, 1/6/13: According to local Delaware radio, the signs have been removed. Here is what was posted on the Facebook page of Delaware 105.9’s program director: Steve Stutzman reports that Milford School Superintendent Dr. Phyllis Kohel has removed the offending playground signs shown and mentioned on my facebook page yesterday. People power wins […]

Here’s something you don’t see every day. A perfume that smells like a tamal. Yup, that is what one Latina is trying to capture as a way to “capture the culture” of Chicago’s famed Pilsen neighborhood. Here is what DNAInfo.com Chicago had to say about Zorayda “Z” Ortiz and her latest tamal-inspired scent: Part of […]

There are very few polarizing figures in modern Latin America and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez is clearly one of them. To some (especially those who run with oil companies), he is despised. To others (mostly those who believe in rights for the poor), he is revered. The last few weeks have been a online swirl […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulates interstate and international communications via radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. Their job is to promote competition, innovation and investment by identifying and eliminating market entry barriers for entrepreneurs including minority- and women-owned businesses, but the FCC is about to be even more lax with its media ownership rules. […]

In this powerful autobiography, Luis J. Rodriguez relates stories from his youth growing up in an impoverished East Los Angeles barrio. The son of Mexican immigrants, from an early age Rodriguez constantly faces barriers to success from a system designed to keep him out. As a result, Rodriguez and his peers are forced to invent the […]

Latino News Roundup Edition from HispanicTips: Latinos Shifting Political Trends – Tensions between different Latino ethnic groups might be changing local politics on the east and west coasts. Host Michel Martin speaks with Columbia University adjunct professor Ed Morales, who says shifting Latino demographics are the driving force behind it all.      From: www.npr.org New Congress […]

Publisher’s Note: I thought long and hard about giving CNN contributor Ruben Navarrette more attention on this page, since quite frankly, I have grown tired of his boorish social media behavior and the content of his columns. But maybe that is part of his master plan: to use his platform to become the Latino Rush […]

When approached today by reporters at an event in Puerto Rico, WAPA-TV president Joe Ramos addressed the recent controversy surrounding “SuperXclusivo,” his network’s top-rated show, and La Comay, the show’s puppet host played by actor Kobbo Santarrosa. Ramos, who will not comment to this outlet after several interview requests were made through WAPA’s established procedures, […]

¿Qué qué? What? In one of the most culturally ignorant stories we have seen this week (h/t to @joeltana, a story out of Cooper City, FL chronicles how “a volunteer soccer coach for a city-sponsored youth league was ejected from a game after two referees ordered him to stop giving instructions in Spanish to several […]

You would think that Puerto Rico’s WAPA-TV would try to avoid even more controversy as it looks for a way to resolve the BoicotLaComay mess. Apparently, according to Otro20Pesos.com, WAPA now has another problem on its hand. Tonight the blog reported that Puerto Rico hip hop star Lisa M was kicked out of the network […]

Today and yesterday’s Latino News Roundup from HispanicTips: December 20th: Miss Venezuela Say Whaaa?      From: music.remezcla.com Latinas with Associates Degrees: 4 steps to a higher salary career      From: latinalista.com As Federal Immigration Overhaul Looms, California Schools Slash Adult English Classes      From: www.pewstates.org Dreamers Sue To Stop Michigan From Denying Driver’s Licenses      From: www.huffingtonpost.com Jenni Rivera […]

Today HuffPost Live (video here) discussed the recent developments surrounding the “SuperXclusivo” controversy and boycott movement against Puerto Rico’s top-rated show and its puppet host, La Comay. The segment covered a lot of issues including the story the Rebels broke yesterday and later reported by our founder for NBC Latino about homophonic emails sent by the show. […]

We got this story from LatinoCommunicators as well as the great Richard Prince of Journal-isms, out of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education. (And oh yeah, Soledad O'Brien.) According to Prince's post, meteorologist Rhonda Lee was fired by ABC Shreveport affiliate KTBS because Lee "responded to a racial remark posted by a viewer on the station's Facebook […]

Based on a true story that unfolded in the deserts and mountains of the Devil’s Highway region—a landscape so harsh and brutal that it even claims the lives of people born in adjacent deserts, and one that became the preferred “crossing” route for Coyotes (guides that lead crossers from Mexico to the US) once the […]

Today Al Jazeera's "The Stream" featured the recent events in Puerto Rico regarding the brutal murder of publicist José Enrique Gómez and the social media movements that resulted from recent events. The following video focuses on #TodosSomosJoseEnrique and #BoicotLaComay. "

In October, we ran a piece called "Now Ben Affleck Is Latino: Another Lost Opportunity for Hollywood." As we tried to stray away from the "we're offended" line that many of our critics tossed our way (because that was not the point of the piece, if people actually took the time to read it and not […]

In response to the recent controversy surrounding the Mexican costume image taken by the Chi Omega sorority chapter of Penn State, the National Association of Latino Fraternal National Organizations (NALFO) released the following statement yesterday:

Censorship. In the Internet age, it is a word that is tossed about a lot and mostly misinterpreted. To give this column some context, let's actually read from the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or […]

This afternoon Puerto Rican governor Luis Fortuño formally requested a recount of the election he conceded two weeks ago to governor-elect Alejandro García Padilla. Puerto Rican Governor Luis Fortuño According to a breaking news report by Puerto Rico's El Nuevo Día, the electoral head of island's pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP), Edwin Mundo, said that […]

Just when we thought that Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) was going out on a limb and telling the world that Pitbull ain't no Tupac or Eminem (TRUTH!), a story by NBC Latino published today just proves that Rubio is just another politician who likes to offer music critiques and delete tweets. Now the Miami native is […]

Tonight, MSNBC released the following statement regarding a Mexican Twinkie segment it aired on "The Cycle:" On Monday’s The Cycle, we aired a graphic during our reporting on the Hostess story that was apparently offensive to some viewers. We want to say that it was never the intention of MSNBC to offend any person or […]