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Our friends at the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) have a knack for cutting through the noise and getting to the issue. Last week, the NHFA wrote a letter to the respective heads of HBO and Starbucks about one very simple issue: Where are the Latino performers in the upcoming Concert for Valor […]

MISSION DISTRICT, SAN FRANCISCO—A new age is upon us, the Age of Soy. No, I’m not talking about some new genetically-modified organism that will (further) fundamentally alter the corn in our tacos, the gas in our cars or the farmland of the Midwest. The development of which I speak has to do with how Mountain […]

So a story by EFE is telling the world that Google “has launched a new Web domain -.SOY- that is intended for members of the Hispanic community, touting it as the ‘place for Latinos online.’” We thought this was an Onion piece, but it is real. Google even has actual people signing up for the […]

The following official ad from the campaign of Democratic candidate for the Senate Alison Lundergan Grimes is quite simply as neo-nativist as the they come. When it comes to immigration, Grimes is running to the right of (wait for it) her Republican opponent, Mitch McConnell. Watch (h/t Buzzfeed). “I approve this message because I’ve never […]

An Change.org petition by Armando Cruz Velasco of Hesperia, California, is calling to get rid of a “Fiesta de los muertos” Scare Zone at Knott’s Scary Farm (part of the famous Knott’s Berry Farm theme park). Cruz Velasco’s petition says: For the last few years, Knott’s Scary Farm has had a Day of the Dead […]

The following is an actual product. How do we know? It’s in flipping SkyMall. Then there is this: Is this a real product? Let’s read the description from the SkyMall page: This stand-out baby gift is the whole enchilada. So cute you could just eat them up! Soft to the touch and gentle against the skin, […]

So our friends at Pocho.com got a reply from the Berkeley landscaper whose “f*cking illegal immigrants” email to a Berkeley college student went viral. Here is what was sent to Pocho’s Lalo Alcaraz: hi mr. alcaraz, this gmail acct was accessed without our authorization after using a public computer and some logout problems. sorry for […]

In response to an email exchange between a local Berkeley landscaper and a student member of UCBerkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association (CASA) which contained rather disparaging and racist language regarding Latinos and immigrants, CASA posted the following statement last night on its Facebook page: Our intent, as the Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association, is to advance […]

Yesterday morning we shared the news of an email exchange between a student member of UCal Berkeley’s Chican@/Latin@ Architecture Student Association and Sachi Landscape who wrote the following in response to the student’s request for a tour: Reaction to the story went viral, with over 20,000 views in just hours and growing. Attempts to reach […]

The following video clip from Media Matters captured today from Laura Ingraham’s show pretty much confirms that her ridiculous rant about a bilingual interview conducted by MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart backfired big time. Just listen to the first few minutes. According to Ingraham, she was only “teasing people who try to do simultaneous translation because it’s […]

The Conservative Tavern Facebook page has over 185,000 fans (the FB site was formed in August, 2014, by the way). It also has a website whose front page doesn’t even have content, just placeholder copy: This morning the page posted a piece with no attribution or links about the “dangers” of those “illegals” coming in […]

Today someone sent us a Mashable piece on a new bilingual campaign to raise self-esteem with young Latinos. The campaign, sponsored by American Family Insurance, shows a lot of really adorable young children posing to quotes from influential Latinos in the U.S. and Latin Americans (yes, even Carlos Slim, which was a head-scratcher). Nonetheless, as […]

Sofía Vergara. Advancing Latina stereotypes for humankind anywhere she goes.

Here is the video clip of what GOP congressional candidate for Virginia’s 10th district Barbara Comstock said this week at a debate: Fedex can track packages coming in here all the time; we can track people who are coming into the country. And we can do that right. There, friends, is this year’s Republican talking […]

You know you have major problems when even the most sympathetic of outlets says you that your story is whack. That is exactly what Breitbart is telling the organizer of the silly “Shut Down All Ports of Entry” protest, which was suddenly cancelled in the early hours of September 20 because of a “bloodbath” threat […]

UPDATE, September 24, 2014: According to Pocho.com, Tressy Capps is no longer with Coldwell Banker. Capps has also reached out to us to see if she can appear on our live radio show. She plans to join us this Sunday night at 10pmET. Capps said that she was not representing Coldwell Banker when she made […]

GOOD magazine is a Los Angeles-based “magazine for the global citizen.” The magazine’s Twitter profile has over 930,000 followers, and yesterday morning, GOOD’s Twitter decided to tweet this out: The reference to Mexico’s September 16 Independence Day holiday as being “less douchey” than Cinco de Mayo, led you to a story called, “Put on a […]

You would think by now, sororities and fraternities would just stop with hosting dumb events in racist costumes, but apparently not. This weekend, Cal State Fullerton’s Daily Titan reported the following: Cal State Fullerton sorority Alpha Delta Pi (ADPi), Zeta Alpha chapter is facing serious sanctions following a culturally inappropriate “Taco Tuesday” recruitment event last […]

Excuse us? A fan alerted us to this one. According to BetaBeat, there is now a “selfie sombrero.” No, really there is. Look here. We really thought this was a joke, but then we read this from ACER UK: Acer has collaborated with fashion designer Christian Cowan-Sanluis and created the world’s first Selfie-Hat. The sombrero […]

Just five days after a social media controversy about a new “Bandidos” restaurant opening in San Francisco’s Castro district caught owners off-guard, this afternoon, the owners posted the following statement on their restaurant’s Facebook site: Reaction to the name change has been generally positive, although some think the owners were being too sensitive. Nonetheless, the […]

Oh, boy. Our least favorite time of the year is upon us: Hispandering (sorry, Hispanic) Heritage Month, where everyone wants a piece of the action, because, you know… Latin@s are a hot market! HMM is on, and we are already seeing some of the same sadness that has happened in previous years. Are you ready? […]