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It’s 2016 and Latino Representation on TV Is Finally Starting to Reflect Reality
*Well that’s a step in a good direction. VL By Ellie Kaufman, Mic Latinos make up 17% of the U.S. population. They account for 32% of frequent moviegoers. But as Flavorwire put it bluntly last year,...
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Political Shows Lack Latino Voices
*Here’s what works: I wrote a weekly opinion column for the San Antonio Light and later for the San Antonio Express News for a total of 20 years. I got the opportunity because another columnist, Carlos...
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George Lopez, Edward James Olmos And Jackie Cruz On The First Latino They Saw...
*This is kinda’ cool, like a game. Who was the first Latino I saw on TV? It was Desi Arnaz, on I Love Lucy. On a U.S.-made film it was Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez. I liked Pedro better because he was from...
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Washington Perspective: I Love Lucy should be required for all candidates
*Bill Valdez thinks all presidential candidates (read here Donald Trump) should be required to watch I Love Lucy reruns, where Latinos aren’t depicted wearing sombreros, sleeping under a cactus. VL By...
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Why Hollywood Can’t Put Real-Life Mexicans on TV
*There’s a very good point in the second layer of this story, about how the use of the word “pocho” revealed a telling lack in decision-making Hollywood. The fact that there was no one in the network...
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Houston news anchor called ‘un-American’ for saying ‘buenos dias’ during...
*Mayra Moreno’s Facebook post about the incident has received more than 20,000 likes since Sunday. VL By Fox News Latino (1.5 minute read) A Houston news anchor came under fire by her viewers for...
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BuzzFeed Backs Out of ‘Significant’ Ad Deal With RNC Over Trump’s Rhetoric
*I wonder how much money they left on the table? VL By Christopher Heine, Adweek (2.5 minute read) What’s worse for our nation’s health? Donald Trump or cigarettes? They’re about equal, per an email...
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David Bowie in Aztlán
*Fantastic! The a story of a Bowie-inspired rock opera, created by Chicano students in Crystal City, Texas. Well worth the 6 minute investment. VL By Gregg Barrios, The Texas Observer (6 minute read)...
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This Alabama newspaper column on immigration from 1893 will blow your mind
*If you can get past the clickbait headline, this is a very good read. It’s an opinion piece written in April of 1893 in the Troy Democrat, from Troy, Alabama. But it could well have been written...
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Latinos Tell The Democratic Party: It’s Not Enough To Say You’re Better Than...
*Is the DNC sending a one-note message to Latino voters? “Trump is going to deport you.” VL By Alice Ollstein, Think Progress PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA — The Republican National Convention featured...
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Love and Rockets rides again: ‘we influenced a whole lot of cartoonists’
*Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez are back with a 35th anniversary edition of their comic saga Love and Rockets. If you’ve managed to miss it until now, here’s your chance to catch up. VL By Alex Rayner,...
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Documentary Captures LAPD’s Violent Crackdown on Historic 1970 Chicano Protest
*The 46th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium is a week from Friday, on August 29. VL By Andrew S. Vargas, Remezcla (2 minute read) Of all of the massive marches that characterized US opposition to...
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Selena to Be Inducted Into the Texan Women’s Hall of Fame
*The induction ceremony will take place October 21, at the Texas Women’s University in Denton, Texas. VL By Yara Simón, Remezcla (3 minute read) If you love Halloween and Selena, you’re about to have...
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Hector Galán’s ‘Wille Velásquez: Your Vote is Your Vote’ Premiers Monday,...
*I’ll be doing a podcast with Hector Galán and will be posting a trailer of the documentary soon. VL By Latino Public Broadcasting (LOS ANGELES) – With his rallying cry of “su voto es su voz” (“your...
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Why Juan Gabriel’s music matters to a brown girl in Chicago
*Read this, it’s a tribute to iconic Mexican singer/songwriter Juan Gabriel, who passed away this weekend. Read it because, as Federico Garcia Lorca used to say, “esto tiene duende.” VL By Ray...
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American Latino literature has focused more on undocumented immigrants
*The literature of the undocumented has “become an important piece of the immigration policy debate that often can be discussed only in black-and-white legal terms.” VL By George Diepenbrock, The...
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An Elegy for Juan Gabriel
*I’ve read many elegies to Juan Gabriel in the last 48 hours and the best aren’t the “learned” ones that include discographies written with cultural authority. The best are the one’s like this, that...
View ArticleWith No Latino Moderator, Trump Shapes Presidential Debates
*Which Latin@ journalist (excluding Jorge Ramos bacause of his public feud with Trump) would you like to see moderating a presidential debate? VL By Raul A Reyes, NBC News (4.5 minute read) Donald...
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‘It’s deeper than just mourning a celebrity’: Juan Gabriel fans pay tribute...
*According to reports tens of thousands of fans visited the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, where Juan Gabriel’s ashes were taken. VL By Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times (4.5 minute read)...
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New Study Reveals ‘Hollywood Is An Epicenter Of Cultural Inequality’
*What’s that saying about “the more things change the more they remain the same?” Only 5.3 percent of speaking roles went to Latin@s. VL By Caolina Moreno, Huffington Post Latino Voices (2 minute read)...
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