As the Latino population grows, so does the importance of how our stories, our struggles, and our victories are portrayed in the media. However, there are still huge discrepancies between the realities of our community and the kind of stories that actually make their way into the national consciousness. Among many factors are the overall angles, characters and narrative lines the media chooses to feature, our actual participation in the discussion of said issues, and our own media's role in perpetuating the wrong narrative.

Felix Sanchez of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, Michele Salcedo from the Associated Press and Sabrina Vourvoulias from Al Día News tackled the subject of Latino representation in mainstream and Latino media with me in a Google Plus on-air hangout July 1.

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