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LATEST UPDATE, September 11, 2014: The name has been changed. UPDATE, September 7, 2014: Bandidos has responded on its Facebook page. In case you want more context, meet the owners. That led to Gómez, who lives in The Castro, to write the following: “Hi Bandidos thanks for responding—we would like you to change the name. […]

Is this 2012 all over again? After what seemed to be progress in 2013 when it came to addressing the Kennedy Center’s abysmal “Latino problem,” this morning the Kennedy Center released its 2014 list of honorees. This morning’s news did not sit well with Felix Sanchez, chairman and co-founder of National Hispanic Foundation for the […]

Not a day goes by where we don’t get pitched. The vast majority of emails we get come from independent artists, musicians, filmmakers or authors asking if we can check out their work and if we like it, can we help promote it. Most of the the time we do. However, here is an example […]

You would think that by 2014 —after years of seeing fish stick fails or Latino-inspired bleaches— companies and the agencies they hire would finally get a clue about how best to thrive in a U.S. market that is becoming more diverse. You would think that these companies and their agencies would go beyond the stale […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As you watch the following video, all you need to know is this about the person talking in the video: Tamara Scott is the National Committeewoman for the Republican National Convention. This is what Scott said on her radio show: When we see these kids, you and I think young kids, we think maybe 12-year-olds, […]

It has not been a good week for editors at Big Journo. First, The New York Times went through some online pain for a “Picking Crops” headline about Latino farmers. Now, The Washington Post had to issue an apology (actually, a non-apology) for a “We’ll need more fajitas” subhead about a story on HUD Secretary […]

Looks like Alaska’s Joe Miller, an actual Republican candidate for the US Senate, has gone all-out in the racism department during his primary campaign. Here is what one Alaskan tweeted out earlier today: Wow. #Alaska politics are crazy on tap. #immigration #gunfail pic.twitter.com/gXw2MB5u6T — Shannyn Moore (@shannynmoore) August 13, 2014 We really thought it was […]

If you can get pass all the shameless plugs Kiss legend Gene Simmons makes below, just watch this following segment from Monday’s “Huff Post Live.” What we DIDN’T hear from Simmons? “I got mine, so tough shit.” The irony of it all? New immigrants, specifically from Latin America (yeah, Gene, we know what you were […]

Just when we thought we would stop bringing up the fact that The New York Times’ Upshot blog has a serious ‘Latino problem’ when it comes to presenting stories about U.S. Latinos, along comes this, which our founder @julito77 tweeted this afternoon: Actual photo used by @UpshotNYT in piece called "It's Not Too Late for […]

This weekend in front of the Massachusetts State House, Canadian-born radio talk show host Jeff Kuhher of Boston’s WRKO Radio had a message to Governor Duval Patrick, who is looking for ways to temporarily house Central American refugee children in one of the state’s federal centers. Looks like Kuhner, with his slight Montreal accent, thinks […]

This is what happens when people just read interpretations of a poll from third parties and don’t actually read the poll itself. This week, Breitbart ‘s John Nolte wanted to let the world know the following: “BORDER CRISIS POLL: 64% OF HISPANICS BACK DEPORTATIONS.” That headline is so definitive, so real, so confident—how could it […]

This one comes from Mi Blog Es Tu Blog. And to quote Gawker’s Adam Weinstein, “The video… is what Wes Anderson-produced political ads for grumpy Maricopa County rotarians might look and sound like.” Yeah, that wasn’t racist at all. Yeah, not racist at all.

Before I start, a word: there are outlets that present a fuller picture when it comes to the root causes of current immigration issues, and those outlets that hide behind “journalism” to feed into your fears. It is a digital media game all too common now, because in the end, like Natalie Merchant once sang, “Give […]

Yesterday, it is safe to conclude Adam Kwasman had one of the worst political days of his life. After a hilariously tragic video where the GOP congressional candidate and Arizona state rep mistakenly thought a bus with YMCA kids were actual migrant children ready to “invade” Oracle, Arizona went viral (yes, even TIME covered it […]

Leave it to the Canada Free Press (yes, that is the name of the site) to share a complete list of detailed locations online for a “National Protests Against Amnesty” on July 18 and 19. The site has chronicled as “master list of times, dates, and locations of our protests against illegal immigration!” CFP’s page […]

Can you see Vanity Fair doing a callout to its female readership, inviting them to write an essay on their body parts they liked the most? You really can’t see Graydon Carter putting pen to paper to ask for pictures of his readers best features—all this accompanied by an image of a “hot” Latina, can […]

I am starting to wonder if we are living in 2014 or whether it’s 1902 or 1857 because all of sudden the paranoia of unaccompanied minors invading the United States with plague, pestilence and illness is beginning to dominate the comments of people like this woman (yes, an actual photo from Monday’s shameful Murrieta protests): […]