Latino Groups Rally Around Ray Suarez

Latino Groups Rally Around Ray Suarez
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2009 file photo, broadcast journalist Ray Suarez Jr. greets a fellow guest during National Hispanic Heritage Month on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The PBS NewsHour's Suarez is scheduled on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 to moderate a teacher town hall in Albuquerque, focusing on New Mexico's high dropout rates, especially among Latino students. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2009 file photo, broadcast journalist Ray Suarez Jr. greets a fellow guest during National Hispanic Heritage Month on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. The PBS NewsHour's Suarez is scheduled on Wednesday, April 18, 2012 to moderate a teacher town hall in Albuquerque, focusing on New Mexico's high dropout rates, especially among Latino students. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Several Latino organizations are coming to the defense of prominent Latino journalist Ray Suarez after the broadcasting giant said he quit PBS because he was starting to feel increasingly marginalized.

Suarez (who is not related to this writer) told Fox News Latino this week that his contributions to the public television network were heavily minimized over the last couple of years and he felt he “didn’t have much of a future with the broadcast.”

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