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A group with ties to Murrieta, California, that has 1,500 Facebook members is actively recruiting supporters via social media to organize a “Shut Down All Ports of Entry” along the US-Mexico border. According to the group’s site, the attempt to close all these ports of entry will start at 8:00amPST on September 20. Here is […]

In response to last week’s Sofía Vergara Emmy moment, five Latina journalists (@SenoritaHuete, @RubiMartinezTV, @grissyflrs, @Joanna_Renteria and @Sotelo_Brenda) decided to produce a video about what they think.

This following is a video of Ly Kou. Kou and others spoke in front of the Riverside, CA, City Council about whether or not Riverside should become a sanctuary city for recent Central American migrants fleeing their countries. Riverside eventually voted against the measure, but it looks like Kou needs to brush up on her […]

Benefit Cosmetics has hired Mexican American comedic actress Anjelah Johnson as part of the brand’s “Wing Women” campaign. The 90’s themed music video touted as being funny is far from it—it’s offensive. In the video Johnson is dressed as her made up character, Bon Qui Qui, in tight fitting gaudy mismatched clothes, painted in exaggerated layers […]

Earlier this week, I received an email from Lance Hannon, a Professor of Sociology at Villanova University. Professor Hannon wanted to let me know that he and Robert DeFina, Professor and Chairperson of Villanova’s Department of Sociology and Criminology, had just published a working paper entitled, “Controversy in the Sociological Meaning of Changes in Latino Racial […]

This. Now we have a response to all of you who think we are just obsessed and need to “get over it.” Just like the response we have for “reverse racism.”

Last night, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) was the featured speaker at a dinner, lecture and book signing hosted by The Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA. A group of veterans from the American GI Forum of California and immigrant rights activists (sponsored by SEIU, CHIRLA and Mi familia vota) attended the event together. Members […]

On August 29, 1970, what began as a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War turned into one of the worst examples of police brutality in the history of the United States.

Back in 2010, Arizona’s education chief John Huppenthal ordered Tuscon’s school district to remove Mexican American Studies courses from its curriculum or lose 10 percent of its funding. This came after an audit commissioned by Huppenthal himself that recommended the program on the basis of, among other things, its promotion of critical thinking. Huppenthal and his […]

While the English-language U.S. press has focused on Central American migrants journeying north, little is being written about the migrant crisis happening in Costa Rica. Contrary to reports that Nicaragua is not experiencing much migration to the United States when compared to countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, one fact is being largely […]

The latest episode from EddieG is out. This week: a spoken word piece called “On Ferguson.”

While everyone is focusing on how Sofía Vergara is complicit during Monday’s Emmy sexist and racist fiasco, it’s about time we shift to address the real problem, a manipulative non-inclusive wealthy industry doling out abuse at the expense of a minority who cannot afford to compete on an equal platform. When so called “other” voices are […]

For those keeping score, here is a series of remarks Senator Marco Rubio said or wrote in 2012 when it came to immigration: For those children that were brought here at a very young age by their parents, through no fault of their own, who has grown up here their entire lives and now want […]

What does “MultiViral” mean to 15 artists from around the world? This video from Calle 13’s official channel explains.

Talk about awkward. Several reports out of Georgia are sharing the account of a rather tense moment between Georgia governor Nathan Deal (R) and immigration activists Tuesday night during an event hosted by the University of Georgia College Republicans. Reporter Blake Aued, who attended the event, live-tweeted the following during Deal’s speech about whether or […]

I nearly choked on my Chardonnay. Colombian comedian Sofía Vergara rotating on a pedestal like an overstuffed lechón asado while a smirking power that bespoke about how great they were at diversity. At the point that the head of the Television Academy pronounced with much glee: “Television has and always will be about storytelling,” and Vergara […]

Remember the guys behind “Frack U. Mexico?” It looks like the filmmaker who created Joe T. Hodo is at it again, this time asking people to help him fund, as he calls it, “the story of Central American migrants in Mexico…and the media’s stupidity in covering it.” Thousands of migrants travel from Central America through […]

This page has written a lot about Sofía Vergara, this generation’s Charo. While some might feel proud of a forced-accent “hot” Latina, most rational people we know aren’t that into what Vergara’s bit represents. So you can imagine that when Vergara decided to do the following during last night’s Emmy show… …it would only perpetuate […]

This story came via Raw Story, which referred to a local Bangor, Maine, paper about how a Bangor native and four other immigration activists have now been charged with “felony lynching” after protesting in Murrieta, California, on July 4. Janet Mathieson, a 22-year-old college student originally from Bangor, told her story to the local Maine […]

The perception that Latin@s have been silent about Michael Brown’s murder and the images of police brutality witnessed in Ferguson since then has captured the attention of many in social and mainstream media. Recently, a Colorlines article was published called the “Pew Survey Explores Racial Attitudes Toward Ferguson Crisis.” The piece was originally called “Do […]

Another episode of “Américans with Roberto Lovato” is out. This week Roberto traveled to Escondido, California, where Central American child refugees have arrived, sparking heated debate and controversy. Local activists Ricardo Favela and Olga Diaz explain the mixture of hate with hope. Earlier this week, “Américans” explored 20 years since Prop 187, and last week, […]