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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...+
Family
Regardless of how you feel about the outcome of the Zimmerman trial, we need to admit it: Zimmerman is Latino. He is one of us. Yes Latinos can be and are racists. We can and do vilify black men in the United States and in our home countries. We do not recognize our own racism...+
Civic Engagement
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...+
Politics
I am a first generation American. I love our constitution, bill of rights and pledge of the allegiance. It is the fabric that keeps us all together on the same page building this great nation. It is our common understanding regardless of where we live in our fifty states. It was well thought out and has lasted us until the twenty...+
Civic Engagement
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...+
Politics
I love me some Sergio Romo, the Giant’s closer. Not only did he wear this AMAZING t-shirt to the World Series Championship Parade: But he’s one of the most stand-up guys in baseball I’ve ever seen. In March, he spoke with Yahoo Sports when he played ball for the Mexican National Team in Arizona. “I’ve...+
Sometimes you can find love on Youtube! Dash Harris is my YouTube crush. Whenever her channel has a new video I need to watch it de una. She has documented the specific Latino racist beliefs in a way I have never seen before in any media. She has take on a complicated task of asking Latinos...+
Family
Most of us at this point have had an family member come out. El tio o la prima now bring their otra mitad to every cumple, bautismo, and fiesta. In other words business as usual. Homophobia still has places in some families and communities, yet things have changed dramatically in the last fifteen years. So my best friend Pew publishes the...+
Civic Engagement
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...+
Politics
I don’t even know where to begin here. War on women? Personhood rights for the unborn? Criminalization of drug use and how it’s not getting us anywhere? The prison pipeline? This piece from Kate Sheppard at Mother Jones has it all: On March 14, 2009, 31 weeks into her pregnancy, Nina Buckhalter gave birth to...+