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Although TikTok videos of people dancing on roller skates have blown up over the past year, many do not know where these moves come from, and the role that Black skaters and skaters of color have played in maintaining roller skating alive and accessible for their communities.

Bustamante had recently started her new part-time job as a cashier at a local organic grocery store when reality hit: her parents lost their jobs.

In this Portrait Of: Gloria Estefan, Latino USA‘s Maria Hinojosa sits down with the icon to discuss her life, her relationships, how she overcame trauma, and how she manages to be excited about everything she does.

In this edition of “How I Made It,” Judge Torres shares how she overcame the hurdles of the foster system and made her way to the Oregon Circuit Court.

In the end, Trump never even needed a physical wall to prevent people from seeking refuge in the U.S.

We will no longer listen to people who simply are not with it. We will not center them.

Héctor Figueroa sits down with Latino USA’s Maria Hinojosa to talk about Latinos in labor organizing and the state of labor unions today.

With all the hyperbolic talk about migrants coming to the United States from Donald Trump and riling up his base, it’s important to understand the truth. In this installment of the series, The Truth About Immigration, we’ll be looking at the facts surrounding migrants and government assistance.

This myth-making and fear-mongering is not even really being challenged. In fact, they are just being embraced.

You know who Joe T. Hodo is, the hilarious satirical character whose Frack U video went viral in Mexico late last year. Last week, Hodo (played by Gregory Berger) was invited to appear on Mexico’s Milenio TV. Berger sent us a clip of Hodo’s appearance, and yes it is hilarious, because you don’t really know […]

Ricardo Trade , Executive Director of Brazil’s Organizational Committee for the 2014 World Cup, recently gave an interview in which he spoke about the impact of nationwide protests that have occurred in Brazil since June have had on the event’s planning. He had the following to say, via The Raw Story: “The protests are democratic in […]

Update: yeah, we shared new info about this. See below. We got this one from from a fan: @latinorebels what’re y’alls thoughts on the new #Bordertown show on fox? Almost all latinos on tv are stereotypes :/ http://t.co/InhsNmHjyX — Zenen Jaimes Pérez (@zenenjaimes) November 12, 2013 So we checked it out, and we read that […]

Aeroméxico has released the following statement in response to claims that staff members refused to allow a group of indigenous people to board one of the airline’s flights in Oaxaca due to their clothing and background, as previously reported by Latino Rebels. Oaxaca Case In relation to flight AM544 from Oaxaca to Mexico City this past November 5th, […]

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) has launched a Veterans Day postcard petition to demand Congress to pass “commonsense immigration reform” legislation to honor the service of Latino veterans. The postcard, which reads “This Veterans Day Honor Them By Honoring Those They Fight For,” was distributed to LULAC’s 130,000 members to fill out, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: We asked Blanca E. Vega to share her thoughts about the HuffPost Live “Dream 9” segment she appeared on this past week. Blanca is a currently a doctoral candidate at Columbia University, and is also the Director of the Higher Education Opportunity Program at Marymount Manhattan College. Her blog is called Race-work, Race-love and you […]

Yesterday, the Congressional Appropriations Subcommittee approved the Obama administration’s $2.5 million budget for the Justice Department to oversee a federally-sponsored plebiscite in Puerto Rico, according to El Nuevo Día. The proposal states that the Justice Department must oversee a non-partisan voter education plan and  a plebiscite which must include several solutions to the status issue. […]

Chile is one of the most restrictive abortion countries in the world. How restrictive? This is what Human Rights Watch says: Abortion has constituted a crime in Chile since 1874. The 1874 penal code, still in force, prohibits abortion in all cases. In 1931, a national health law (Código Sanitario) gave doctors the possibility to […]

Latino Rebels welcomes a new contributor to our page: Luis Marentes. This post was originally published on Luis’ blog. You can follow Luis on Twitter: @marentesluis. For most of 2013 I have carefully, perhaps obsessively, followed the debate around comprehensive immigration reform. Beginning with the emergence of the “Gang of 8” the process has been […]

Fireworks and a barbeque on the 4th of July are as American as it gets (ok, maybe you’ll have to add an apple pie, but still). And while the celebrations are always fun, what is left behind afterwards is anything but. I was reminded of this by Raul Colon’s blog post yesterday on the trashy […]

NISGUA (Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala) filed the following Day 22 report of the genocide trial of former dictator Efraín Ríos Montt and ex-intelligence chief Mauricio Rodriguez Sánchez in Guatemala City. They have given us permission to republish all their reports about this historic trial. NISGUA continues live coverage of the trial in Guatemala of Efraín Ríos […]

For most of my life I did my best to stay away from politics. I always felt that there was no point and that it is just a huge waste of time. In fact I still feel this way most of the time. We have created these imaginary sides, the left and the right. Team […]