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Now THIS is news that matters, and we actually kind of serious about that. NBC Latino, which ran with a Disney Latina princess story last week that led to thousands of shares and comments about Latino identity, reported today that Disney has changed its mind about Princess Sofía, who originally was billed as Disney's first […]

Who said good things cannot come out of situations? A pro-immigration GOP group that was calling for Eva Longoria's resignation as co-chair of the Obama for America campaign after she faced a social media controversy this week, just released a press release today saying that the group, Café con Leche Republicans, has accepted Longoria's apology and […]

UPDATE, October 25, 2012: As I suspected, although the vast majority of private and public responses I have received for this piece has been very positive, I have also been criticized by some for linking to some of the blog posts that didn't clearly reveal that what they were writing was a sponsored post. Since […]

This is why it is always best to think before you retweet a Romney "twat" tweet to 4.4 million followers when you are a co-chair of the Obama for America campaign. Millions of people are watching and the conservative social media outrage machine that has become its own industry is ready to pounce on you. That […]

In a few weeks, US voters will take to the polls in one of the most important elections of our generation. Our friends at Pícaro Media, a cool new Chicago agency that produces premium content for the bilingual and bicultural US Latino demographic, created this user-generated video about the importance of voting. We love it. Let […]

Ok, we are still feeling a bit dirty that we got mentioned on Fox News. And they totally missed our point about Eva Longoria's unfortunate rewteets, so we wanted to offer our response to it. Dear Fox News: Thanks for the mention, but… We never said we were "offended," although we did say that what […]

Editor's Note: Last month, one of the Rebeldes caught rock and roll legends ZZ TOP at New Jersey's Count Basie Theater for like the 100th time in his life. Here is the review from an early October show. It’s difficult to write something new about ZZ Top (members Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, and Frank Beard), […]

As the curtains draw open tonight at the Poets Den Theater in El Barrio, New York City – the spotlight will unquestionably shine brightly on Luis Antonio Ramos, one of the most talented Latino actors to grace the stage and screen over the past 30 years. Growing up Gonzales, the one-man play written by Felix Rojas, […]

You know when you have pages like NBC Latino and Remezcla sending you posts about a new Latina Disney princess, the Rebeldes have to check it out. Ok, at first, we thought the princess, named Princess Sofia, looked like a young Christina Hendricks from Mad Men. Not Latina. But like NBC's piece said, let's assume […]

After facing a Twitter firestorm from conservative outlets like Drudge, Breitbart and the Washington Examiner for retweeting a vulgar tweet that called Mitt Romney a "misogynistic/racist twat," actress/activist and Obama for America campaign co-chairman Eva Longoria took to her social networks today to issue an apology and clarify her intentions. According to the HuffPost's Latino […]

Yesterday we reported the story of Christian Santiago Tapia, social media manager and adviser to the governor of Michoacán, who via Facebook called for the burning of teacher colleges and student protesters in the Mexican state. The protesters were raided by Mexican police on Monday, and several disturbing images have been shared online. Here is just one […]

UPDATE: As of Thursday afternoon, October 18, Longoria has tweeted out an apology. You would think that after retweeting and deleting a tasteless prison rape tweet when describing the debate between Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan, Obama for America national campaign co-chair and actress/activist Eva Longoria would have learned that it is […]

Objectification of Women and the Distortion of Truths I'm sure by now the latest viral meme which refers to a quote taken from Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his mention of 'women in binders' has crossed your dashboard several times today. The phrase came from part of his answer to this audience question at the second Presidential […]

In yet another example of how not to behave on social networks, the Facebook page of Christian Santiago Tapia—an adviser to the government of Michoacán, Mexico, and, according to reports, the social media manager of Fausto Vallejo Figueroa, Michoacán's governor—called for the burning of the teaching colleges where student protesters have been demonstrating against curriculum changes […]

This just in from Maricopa County in Arizona. The county's election department admitted to an error on voter cards. According to a report by ABC 15, here is what happened: The Maricopa County Elections Department mistakenly listed the wrong date of the upcoming general election on an official government document. The error appears on a […]

NOTE: As part of our media sponsorship tasks, which we are volunteering our time to, we are running the following promotion piece that was written for the ""Walk-N-Roll Twitter Party for Spina Bifida." We want to thank the event organizers for creating this very informative docunment and we are really proud to be involved. Laura […]

Originally Published at JulioRVarela.com Tonight, Puerto Rico's Noticias 24/7 broadcast a debate to discuss the island's upcoming November 6 political status plebiscite. The moderated forum featured pro-statehood Governor Luis Fortuño, pro-independence candidate for governor Juan Dalmau, and  Luis Delgado, who supports a freely associated sovereign state. I could get into the details and try to encapsulate decades […]

Come on. Really? Let's step back for a minute and give you the context. This past weekend, the Miami Herald reported a new poll it conducted with Florida International University. The latest results have Obama leading Romney 51-44% (just seven percentage points) among the sampling of about 720 Latino voters the poll reached in Florida. The full […]

44 years ago in Detroit, José Feliciano's career was almost destroyed when he sang a soulful and unique rendition of the national anthem. Tonight in San Francisco, before Game 1 of the National League Championship Series between the Giants and the Cardinals, Feliciano felt the power of redemption. The Puerto Rican legend had a preview […]

Yeah, we are fans of comedian Bill Santiago. So for all those who keep us asking the question, "Hispanic or Latino?," we will let Santiago explain it for you. Yeah we have been following Santiago for a while. One of our favorite clips was from 2006, when he appeared on Comedy Central. Comedy Central If […]

Ben Affleck's ARGO came out October 12 and it is already getting Oscar buzz. The movie, based on a 1979 CIA successful rescue of six American diplomats in Iran, is good. Very good. Affleck deserves the kudos, except for one thing: instead of casting a Latino actor to play the movie's main character, Tony Méndez, […]