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EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures will be the target of a second protest in as many months by Latino community leaders who claim the studio has a "dismal" record of hiring Latinos in front of and behind the cameras. A similar protest was held August 25 in front of Paramount's main gate. The demonstration, set for…

Two Latino organizations say they will stage a demonstration outside Paramount Pictures on Saturday to protest the studio's "dismal hiring record of Latino talent." The protest will be led by leaders of the National Hispanic Media Coalition and the National Latino Media Council, which announced a boycott of the studio…

UPDATED with Paramount statement, 10:50 AM: Paramount Pictures has issued this statement about the call for boycott: “We recently met with NHMC in a good faith effort to see how we could partner as we further drive Paramount's culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging. Under our new leadership team, we continue to…

Journalist Angelo Falcón, the National Institute for Latino Policy president and founder and National Hispanic Media Coalition board member, has died.  He was 66. Falcón was a nationally recognized expert on Latino politics and policy issues and the author of the Atlas of Stateside Puerto Ricans.  He was also the…

The National Hispanic Media Coalition has issued an open letter to Netflix urging that its sitcom One Day At A Time be renewed for a third season. The show, an update of Norman Lear’s late 1970s-early ’80s CBS comedy of the same name, features a Cuban-American family living in Los Angeles. It deals with issue-centric…

The day before the Oscars, under darkening skies, more than a hundred Latinos demonstrated in Hollywood today to protest the "exclusion" of Hispanics from mainstream motion pictures. It was their second protest in the weeks leading up to the Academy Awards, and organizers say that because the studios aren't listening…

Saying she should be "deeply ashamed of herself," the head of the National Hispanic Media Coalition has called on renowned acting coach Lesly Kahn to meet with him to discuss an audio file that surfaced yesterday in which she can be heard telling a non-Hispanic student that she would have a better chance of landing an…

Ingrid Goes West producer and star Aubrey Plaza, Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor, How To Get Away With Murder), and Disney’s Oscar frontrunner Coco have been tapped as honorees at National Hispanic Media Coalition's 21st Annual Impact Awards. Univision CEO Randy Falco, Spider-Man: Homecoming actor Tony Revolori and…

More than 50 protesters demonstrated outside today's annual Oscar nominees luncheon at the Beverly Hilton to protest the under-representation of Latinos in the film industry. Carrying signs saying "Enough is Enough" and chanting "Oscars so white" and "Latinos excluded, time to be included," they're demanding that…

The National Hispanic Media Coalition said today that it will hold two demonstrations targeting the Academy Awards to protest "the chronic under-representation of Latinos in on-screen and behind-the-camera roles in motion pictures." None of this year’s acting nominees is Latino, but Mexico-born Guillermo del Toro is…

Univision is ratcheting up its criticism of Verizon for deciding to “withhold Univision news, information and services from their Hispanic subscribers” by dropping the network’s signal from its FiOS service in a carriage dispute. On Wednesday, the U.S. Hispanic TV network said Verizon had dropped it “entirely without…

A group of Hispanic advocacy organizations says CBS, whose top programming execs took tough TCA questions about casting diversity, has agreed to “record commitments to represent Latinos at the network.” The National Hispanic Media Coalition says CBS Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves met last week with Thomas A. Saenz…