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Today during the opening session of a debate that is considering whether the current immigration reform bill should be put to a vote in the Senate, Virginia senator Tim Kaine (D) gave his remarks supporting the measure in Spanish. Such a speech almost guarantees top billing today on Spanish-language media, and it will raise several […]

Latino Rebels is running a series of pieces by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nicholas Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This is the series’ third post. You can read “Part One: Culture of Drugs” here, and “Part Two: Culture of Violence” here. (All photos here should be credited to Nicholas Belardes.) Part Three: Analysis Of A Protest BAKERSFIELD, […]

Last fall a troubling video out of Philadelphia showing a police officer punching a women went viral on YouTube. Earlier this year, former Philadelphia Police lieutenant Jonathan Josey, who was fired from the force after reaction to the video was so overwhelming, was found not guilty for striking Aida Guzmán. The not guilty decision was […]

Twitter is a fascinating place. Atlanta Brave legend and future Hall of Famer Chipper Jones can attest, after his “just kidding” tweet suggesting that Florida gators can be shipped to the Rio Grande to “stop the illegals” hit the national media (LR reported it first early yesterday morning, thank you, NBC Latino) and led to […]

Guess Twitter got the best of former Altanta Brave and future Hall of Famer Chipper Jones. On June 8 Jones posted the following dumb “JK” (“just kidding”) tweet: Y’all think if they took all them gators they trap in Fla and La and put them in the Rio Grande, it wud stop the illegals from […]

SAN JUAN – Yesterday Ricardo Rosselló, Michael González Cruz, and Joel Isaac Díaz, leaders of Boricua ¡Ahora Es! (BAE), a political advocacy group that believes in changing Puerto Rico’s current territorial status with the United States, filed a joint complaint to the Puerto Rico’s Commission on Civil Rights, saying that that the civil rights of […]

Yesterday The Bakersfield California reported new developments in the May 8 in-custody death of David Sal Silva, a case that has garnered continued local attention and major social media interest, yet has yet to reach national media levels. According to reporter Christine Bedell, the “attorney for the family of David Sal Silva plans to file […]

UPDATE: Jones apologized last night, although are we wondering if he was “jk” about the apology, too. I realize that my tweet yest was offensive and distasteful. An attempt at humor was a terrible mistake. Please accept my heartfelt apology! — Chipper Jones (@RealCJ10) June 9, 2013 Maybe former Atlanta Brave and future Hall of […]

We know, we know. Sometimes we should chuckle a bit, and that might be the case here after a reader sent us a picture of a menu item from The Bada Bean restaurant in Tallahassee, FL. The item is called “The Border Patrol,” a Healthy Start dish with “two egg whites, chopped avocado, and tomato […]

Last year we wrote about VIVA LUCHE LIBRE, a short documentary about one of Mexico’s greatest sport and cultural traditions. Tomorrow June 9, the film will screen on the Jersey Shore, as part of the Lighthouse International Film Festival. VIVA LUCHA LIBRE is an official selection of the festival, and it will be screened with a […]

We received the following Tumblr post last night from Bare-Life. The author describes a new DoSomething.org campaign that asks people to be “undocumented for a day.” As the site says: “Send your friends this experience to show them the challenges of being undocumented (i.e. living with no citizenship). You’ll qualify for a $3,000 scholarship.” We […]

Today Latino Rebels were part of an inaugural roundtable discussion broadcast on NPR’s AltLatino. Our founder, @julito77, joined the shows co-cohosts, Jasmine Gard and Felix Contreras, and our friend Marisa Treviño of Latina Lista. We talked about three topics: “Devious Maids,” the tragedy of undocumented minors entering the U.S. alone, and the developments that led […]

Late yesterday, Whole Foods issued a formal bilingual statement in response to an Associated Press story about how two employees of the Austin-based company were suspended one day at a New Mexico store for speaking Spanish during work hours and violating policy. The original AP story went viral on social media, and our own @julito77 […]

In an opinion column for NBC Latino this afternoon, Latino Rebels founder @julito77 received official comments from Whole Foods’ Media Relations team regarding an Associated Press story published earlier today by NBC Latino where two Whole Foods employees in New Mexico claimed that they were suspended a day’s work for speaking Spanish during work hours. […]

Although the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had initially asked the leadership of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade (NPRDP) to submit documentation this week surrounding an investigation about the relationships the non-profit NPRDP has with corporate sponsors, the deadline for the submission was extended until after the parade concludes on June […]

UPDATE: Whole Foods has responded. Et tú, Whole Foods? According to an Associated Press story published by NBC Latino, two Whole Foods employees said that they were suspended from their jobs “after complaining about being told they couldn’t speak Spanish to each other while on the job.” The story said that these two employees worked […]

The things you find on YouTube. Here is cult movie star Danny Trejo doing an Old El Paso commercial for the United Kingdom market. What do you think? Would this ad cut it in the States? The ad was developed by UK agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty: The Hollywood actor Danny Trejo stars in the latest […]

In 1971, César Chávez moved his home and the headquarters of the United Farm Workers union from Delano to La Paz, a property encompassing 187 acres in the Tehachapi Mountains of eastern Kern County, California. Kern is the fifth-largest county in California with nearly 50% of its population of Mexican American descent. When he died […]

This morning, I spent 30 minutes with Madelyn Lugo, chairperson of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade (NPRDP) organization. We covered several issues surrounding the latest developments with the official Coors parade can that has led to controversy in New York City’s Puerto Rican community. We also discussed the request by the state attorney general […]

In response to a CNN Latino interview last Friday where Madelyn Lugo of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade claimed that the recent controversy surrounding an official parade Coors beer can was being manufactured by unnamed individuals who had political and economic interests in discrediting the parade, New York City councilor Melissa Mark-Viverito appeared on […]

Latino Rebels is running a series of pieces by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nicholas Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This is the series’ second post. You can read the first post, “Part One: Culture of Drugs” here. Part Two: Culture of Violence BAKERSFIELD, CA – There is a solemnness to the surveillance […]