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Filmmaker Gloria Moran Is Challenging Misogyny in the Latino Community With a Powerful Video Series

Andrew S. Vargas — Thu, 22 Dec 2016 22:38:51 +0000

Just hearing the word Public Service Announcement is enough to send shivers down any TV watchers spine. It’s enough that we’re constantly bombarded with toothpaste commercials and prescription drug spots, but then we have to sit through someone preaching about saying “NO” to drugs, or not starting forest fires – I mean, really, who starts

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Watch Luis Guzmán Troll Trump’s Fearmongering In This Hilarious Voter Fraud Parody

Andrew S. Vargas — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 18:06:49 +0000

Voter fraud is a very real thing. By real we mean that there have been 31 documented cases over the last seven election cycles, so it technically exists, but out of a billion votes cast, it’s affected exactly 0% of election outcomes. But Donald Trump is a big orange baby, and he decided that if he was

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From Raquel Welch to Rosario Dawson: Two Decades of Latino Voter PSAs to Get You Through October

Manuel Betancourt — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 22:02:36 +0000

You keep hearing it because it’s still true: Latinos can and should be the decisive vote in this election. As Latino political activist Willie Velasquez put it back when he was fighting for voting registration: “su voz es su voto.” Yet despite the rising demographic numbers of Latinos in the United States, the Latino vote

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Lupita Nyong’o, Rosario Dawson & More Honor Immigrants in Powerful PSA

Yara Simón — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 23:25:03 +0000

Oftentimes, immigration in the United States is framed around the Latino community and the US-Mexico border. But doing this erases the immigrant experience of many, and unfairly paints immigration reform as something that only affects people from Latin America. A new video from Welcome US aims to show that in the United States, immigration should matter

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