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Latino News Roundup Edition from HispanicTips: Sonia Sotomayor’s “My Beloved World” becomes New York Times bestseller Fresh off swearing-in Vice President Joe Biden, Sotomayor will be number one on the hardcover nonfiction bestsellers list for the week of February 3rd :: read more at nbclatino.com Cool New Book from Alejandro L. Madrid – MUSIC IN […]

ABC’s “Modern Family” is still the country’s most popular scripted show, averaging about 11 million viewers per week. It has made a star out of Colombian actress Sofía Vergara, and it would not surprise us if the show’s creators were inspired by Charo when they invented the role of Gloria Pritchett. Knowing that Vergara’s character […]

This morning, DREAMer activist leader Erika Andiola made an appearance on Univision’s Al Punto with Jorge Ramos. Andiola, whose family story gained global attention after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials raided her home the night of January 10, discussed several topics in this segment, from the events surrounding the ICE raid to the recent announcement […]

The following video from Uruguay is starting to make the rounds online. Produced by the Casa de la Cultura Afrouruguaya (The Afro-Uruguayan Cultural Institute), the video asks the Real Academia Española (the authoritative organization of the Spanish language) to remove racist expressions in the RAE’s dictionary. The group also created an online petition that as […]

The NYPD is currently testing a technology that they claim will help make us all safer. They claim that this will aid law enforcement in locating illegal guns in the city. The technology detects the energy our bodies emit, a gun would block or cover that emission and reveal its shape or simply show that […]

Here is yet another example of a “low priority” immigration case that should have never gotten to this point. United We Dream shared yet another online petition to stop the deportation of Vasant Shetty, a father of two DREAMers. Here is what the petition says: After immigrating to the U.S. in 1998 from India, Vasant […]

Here is another #ICEFail example shared by United We Dream. Halina Mowak from Poland faces a deportation judge on January 31, another “low priority” case that we thought would not be the focus of the Obama administration. UWD is looking for online signatures that will be sent to ICE Director John Morton. This is not […]

With reports that La Comay and “SuperXclusivo” might be finding a new home with Miami’s Mega TV (owned by the Spanish Broadcasting System) after being dropped from Puerto Rico’s WAPA TV, tonight the Boicot La Comay Facebook page published the following open letter: Dear SBS Executive Officers and Board of Directors, Your current mission statement […]

Sometimes when it comes to social media and the constant perceived pressure by brands to go “viral,” the end result can be perplexing, and you can have your fans just shaking their heads. Take, for example, the Facebook page of Bud Light Phoenix. Now we won’t get into the local history of the Hensley Company, […]

Here’s a song we got late last night. It’s from The Peace Poets, New York-based group that uses “music and poetry in our collective struggle for justice.” The Peace Poets published the video this week. It is an open letter to President Obama, and it’s called “I Ain’t Mad at You.” We do think they […]

THIS JUST IN FROM OUR FRIENDS AT MAMIVERSE Mamiverse is thrilled to announce an upcoming Twitter-Talk with Emmy award-winning journalist Jorge Ramos. Currently the anchor of Noticiero Univision, Ramos joins Mamiverse, along with partners Latino Rebels and iHispano, to talk about the new edition of his book, A Country for All: An Immigrant Manifesto. In it, Ramos addresses the urgent […]

Latino News Roundup Edition from HispanicTips: Now we know! 18 million Hispanics are on Facebook! There are 18 million U.S. Hispanics on Facebook. Approximately 7 million of them are Spanish-dominant while 11 million are bilingual or English-dominant. :: read more at www.portada-online.com Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to commit $100,000 for Hispanic businesses Walker says the […]

We get it. Puerto Ricans are loud and fun at parties. They like to dance. They like to be drink rum. They like to have sex (yes, please). We understand. Yet there is something wrong about the following two videos that are making the rounds on the Internet and on Facebook. The first one, “Rent-a-Rican,” […]

The Huffington Post’s Elise Foley reported today that Janet Napolitano, the head of Homeland Security, went on local Phoenix television to defend the January 10 ICE arrest of two DREAMer activist Erika Andiola’s family members. Within hours of the arrest, Andiola’s mother, Maria Arreola, and brother, Heriberto Andiola Arreola, were released after a social media […]

Former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo (R) is one of the most vocal anti-immigration voices in the United States. His views are as extreme as they come, and you would think that the recent election would have sent him a message that some in the Republican Party need to start getting a clue about why U.S. […]

We received the following release from United We Dream today: 20+ Local Affiliates Hold Rallies, Vigils, Call-In Days and “Banner Drops” to Decry Deportations that Divide Families and Push Obama to Lead on Immigration Washington, D.C. – This week, coinciding with President Obama’s inauguration, hundreds of DREAMers across the country will participate in nearly two […]

In case you missed it, here is the complete interview between Jon Stewart and Justice Sonia Sotomayor. This first video was the interview that ran on last night on The Daily Show. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Here is part […]

Seis del Sur is a photography exhibit running through March 8th, 2013 at the Bronx Documentary Center. The Bronx of the 1970s through the early 1990s comes back to life in this rare and emotional exhibit that showcases the work of six talented Puerto Rican photographers who were working side-by-side (often not even knowing so) […]

This is why SNL frustrates us: even when they are funny, it seems that they can’t pull it off completely, that the privilege is just too engrained in its writing staff. Case in point: the show’s “Starbucks” commercial parody from this weekend. No doubt, the idea was really funny. Generally speaking, Starbucks are notorious for […]

During his keynote address the 45th Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Commemoration Service today in Atlanta, the controversial Rev. Sam Rodríguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, specifically addressed immigration reform, saying that the 11 million undocumented in this country are not “illegal” because “anyone made in the image of God cannot be called […]

Just another example of what is happening every day in America. The time to stop the separation of families is now. Here is what the YouTube channel of Puente Arizona has shared about what happened to Edi Arma and his family: On Monday, January 14th, the home of a local Phoenix family was raided by […]