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NarcoData Provides Easy-to-Understand Review of Organized Crime in Mexico

A new journalism project by Animal Político and El Daily Post creates an interactive resource based on government documents, interviews, media reports and other data.

  • Nov 2, 2015
  • 1:09 PM

Painting and Erasing: Senos que se nos respetan

After a mural depicting a nude black woman is defaced in Puerto Rico, women appear topless as a protest to reclaim their bodies.

  • Oct 31, 2015
  • 11:50 AM

Colombian TV Network Puts an End to Blackface Soldier Character

It looks like the blackface Soldado Micolta will no longer appear on Colombia television, after an anti-racism group was informed by a lawyer for Caracol TV that the actor has agreed to stop portraying the character.

  • Oct 30, 2015
  • 9:22 PM

Keep Your Inner Werebigot at Bay: Don’t Dress Up as a ‘Mexican’

The Univ. of Louisville’s president is forced to apology after his inner werebigot was revealed when he dressed up as a “Mexican.”

  • Oct 30, 2015
  • 1:22 PM

Márcio Faraco: Bossa Nova Virtuoso

The Brazilian singer-songwriter chats with Latino Rebels ahead of his performance in New York City on Friday, October 30.

  • Oct 30, 2015
  • 11:16 AM

Infographic: The Balance of 60 Years of Violence in Colombia

El Molino Online has published an infographic detailing the horrific outcome of over half a century of civil war in Colombia.

  • Oct 29, 2015
  • 12:18 PM

Marco Rubio is a Hypocrite (or Just Another Latino Republican)

The senator from Florida, like many Latino Republicans, opposes the same programs that helped him and his family succeed.

  • Oct 29, 2015
  • 11:23 AM

Podcast: Medellín’s Missing Bodies

In the latest episode of Latin American Radio Dispatch, journalist Jessica Diaz-Hurtado reports on Colombia’s disappeared and the loved ones still searching for them.

  • Oct 29, 2015
  • 9:00 AM

Sources: Puerto Rico Gov. García Padilla Won’t Run for Reelection

Sources close to the governor tell El Nuevo Día that he will announce his intention not to seek reelection in 2016.

  • Oct 28, 2015
  • 12:04 PM

Illinois Student Newspaper Apologizes for Illegal Immigration Cartoon

The Daily Illini issues an apology after publishing a Halloween-related editorial cartoon about illegal immigration.

  • Oct 28, 2015
  • 10:25 AM

The Artifacts of a Broken Immigration System

A database created by the Texas Observer and Baylor University will show the items left by migrants who died while crossing the border.

  • Oct 27, 2015
  • 2:50 PM

Program Will Send Low-Income Students to See ‘Hamilton’

Twenty thousand New York City students will be given an outside-the-classroom lesson in American history.

  • Oct 27, 2015
  • 12:10 PM

Ariel Rojas: ‘No More Violence’

A chat with Ariel Rojas, the immigrant rights activist who was dragged and kicked by a Trump supporter in Miami over the weekend.

  • Oct 27, 2015
  • 9:08 AM

Democracy Is Dead in Guatemala

The election of military-backed conservative comedian Jimmy Morales as president of Guatemala proves the system of corruption is alive and kicking.

  • Oct 26, 2015
  • 1:46 PM

Federico Peña: ‘My Country, My Vote’

A chat with the former Clinton cabinet member and mayor of Denver about the need for Latinos to fully flex their political and economic muscles.

  • Oct 26, 2015
  • 9:27 AM

#RacismIsntFunny: Latino Groups Launch Campaign to ‘Dump Trump’ from SNL

Latino Rebels joins America’s Voice, United Farm Workers, the National Council of La Raza and others in an effort to get NBCUniversal to keep its word and cut ties with the GOP frontrunner.

  • Oct 25, 2015
  • 2:52 PM

Deli Owner Posts Anti-Latino Remark Against Customer

The owner of AJ’s Gourmet Deli in Idaho faces a severe backlash after posting an anti-Latino racial slur on the business’s Facebook page.

  • Oct 23, 2015
  • 2:05 PM

Dolores Huerta: Our Communities Need to Stand United

In an op-ed, Dolores Huerta announces the upcoming launch of the My Country, My Vote! campaign to get Congress and the president to pass immigration reform.

  • Oct 23, 2015
  • 9:58 AM

The Time Congress Almost Passed Immigration Reform

‘Immigration Battle’ details how a bipartisan push to pass reform almost reached a deal — before it collapsed in June 2014.

  • Oct 22, 2015
  • 3:49 PM

Pres. Obama’s Shadow War Against Central American Child Refugees

The Obama administration relies on a network of law enforcement units across Central America to ensure children fleeing violence never reach the United States.

  • Oct 22, 2015
  • 10:11 AM

Cuñao: Blood, Sand and Solidarity

A chat with Julio Montero, frontman for the Los Angeles-based Latin Folk group Cuñao, on the group’s latest album ‘Sangre y Arena.’

  • Oct 21, 2015
  • 9:17 AM

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