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The Latino Rebels Foundation, shown here in a YouTube video featuring actor Esai Morales, aims to create scholarships for young journalists.

Latino Rebels Foundation starts pipeline for Hispanic filmmakers, journalists

Latino stereotypes may still abound in television shows and movies, but the Latino Rebels Foundation is looking to change that. Latino businesses, … Read More

The New York Times issued a revision in their stylebook urging reporters to find alternatives to the term "illegal." 
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Op-ed: New York Times missed the mark by not dropping the term “illegal”

As a media advocacy organization, GLAAD understands that media has the power to either inflame or help diminish prejudice toward any group. That is why we are … Read More

Young U.S. Cuban students have helped organize a conference to discuss the future of youth in Cuba.

Students, Cuban dissidents gather in NYC to brainstorm a path for Cuban youth

A group of young students and members of the grassroots organization Roots of Hope have organized a conference with Cuban dissidents in New York City as a way … Read More

In the Latinitas workshops, young girls get to create blogs to empower them to have a voice.

Latinitas create their own positive images in media

This is the fourth installment of Latinas empowering other Latinas to succeed in honor of Women’s History Month.  Ten years ago at the University of … Read More

Edwin Pagan, cinematographer of "Latinos Beyond Reel" (left), Miguel Picker, filmmaker (center), and  Ronelle Rodriguez Torres, associate producer and lead researcher (right) at the film's first screening in New York's Bronx Documentary Center. (Photo/Karah Shaffer/BDC)

Latinos Beyond Reel: Film hopes to change Latino stereotypes in media

Miguel Picker was tired of working in the media and film industry for more than two decades and continually seeing Latinos being depicted negatively, and not … Read More

Geraldo Rivera has made another handful of head scratching comments on Fox jumping into the conversation about Department of Homeland Security allegations.

Geraldo Rivera wonders if “lesbian cabal” is running the Department of Homeland Security

Geraldo Rivera is the gift that keeps on giving -- stupor-inducing commentary on a national platform. During a segment of "Fox and Friends," Rivera waded … Read More

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Opinion: Shut out by mainstream media

CHICAGO -- As recently as five years ago, I was gnashing my teeth because the television networks catering to Hispanics in the U.S. were offering only … Read More