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NPR reports that Univision won the ratings for three straight weeks this summer, dominating the most coveted demographic of 18-49 year olds. Over the past few weeks, Univision has aired important soccer tournaments (Copa Oro and CONCACAF). And its 10th annual “Premios Juventud,” a sort of People’s Choice award show, featured a much-tweeted-about performance by...+
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As we have mentioned before we love Latino Decisions As always they keep on coming up with new surveys and bring new insight to what and how we are thinking about. With forty-one questions about key policy issues and our opinions on current elected officials, there is a lot to parse out. Here are some...+
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Oh Senator Rubio forgive me. I am sure that as a child you were taunted by your peers by having your name continuously shouted out at the pool. The thing is you are loosing your center and you need to find it stat! Too many of us depend on it. After working with seven other senators in...+
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The most important mentors in my youth were African-American women. They took me under their wings and explained to me how this country does and does not work. They helped me give voice to my concerns, issues and experiences. They made me feel like I was family, an asset and a partner. Unlike many other...+
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FIFA just created new anti-racism task force. Sigh! Better late than never. The last couple of years players of African and Latin-American descent have been harassed, taunted and physically assaulted by opposing players and fans. I just want to watch a game not have to keep track of the racial slurs. Drink every time somebody makes a monkey noise!...+
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As we have mentioned in previous posts the GOP has issues. Big Latino sized issues. So there solution seems to throw some money at it: The chairman of the Republican State Leadership Committee, Ed Gillespie, told reporters: “The RSLC is proud to announce a commitment of $6m to achieve the Future Majority Project’s new metrics of...+
Compton has a lot a problems. Problems most places have when you have poor working class folks live. The last thing a place like that needs is racial issues. Well it looks like the Compton Police Department and Unified School District did not get that memo. They where just slapped with a $40 million dollar suit....+
“In a way, they are a lot like the immigrants who came here in the 1700s, who built our great country into what it is today.” I am a BBCphile. So imagine to my surprise to read a well written and researched article about who we are in the U.S.! Yeah! So refreshing to be...+
Dear Ms. Cepeda, I disagree: Perception, not voting power, is the GOP’s biggest Hispanic challenge. When you use their cheap labor to build this countries wealth and then you insult people you got a serious problem. Immigration is an issue: when 29 percent of Latino respondents said it would be “like rewarding them for doing something wrong” and...+
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A Latino Governor in Arizona is not my fan fiction it is our neglected history. His name was Raul Castro (no, not that one), and his election was noteworthy because in those days, Arizona actually was something of the image that it is depicted as by opponents of the controversial immigration law today. And Castro himself was...+