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The viral video that is "Why Sara Hates Laredo" entered the mediaspehere the last few days, with coverage in outlets such as The Los Angeles Times and The Dallas Morning News. Ever since LatinoRebels.com was one of the first Latino news outlets to cover this story, we have seen a lot of activity that has resulted […]

Taco Mayor aside, the real issue in East Haven, Connecticut is all about racial profiling, which is a growing trend in the United States. Here is a report from Al Jazeera English.

Our friends at Cuéntame share another power video with their community. The time to stop what banks are doing is now. Discuss on Facebook. Share it here. In 2008, Arturo de los Santos, a former Marine who lives with his wife and four children in Riverside, CA, fell victim to the economic crash caused by […]

Mississippi state Rep. Steve Holland (D), who introduced a bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, is saying that it was all a joke as a way to bring attention to anti-immigration legislation that his Republican colleagues are considering in his state. Holland spoke with the Blog of New Orleans […]

The public Internet can be a dangerous place, especially when you use YouTube to express your opinions. The 'Why Sara Hate Laredo" viral video has become a mess, not only for the city of Laredo but also for the woman who was in the video. Here is report from local Laredo TV, which reported that […]

  ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY CAFE CON LECHE REPUBLICANS For Immediate Release – An Open Letter to Mississippi State Representative D. Stephen Holland (D) Marshall, MN – contact information Dear Rep. Holland, We were astonished to learn of your bill, HB150, to rename the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” Apparently you don’t take your responsibilities […]

Yes, we have now seen everything. Mississippi Rep. Steve Holland (D) introduced a house bill that wants to change geography, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Is that how you change maps? If so, we would like to introduce a bill to change Mississippi (which we can never spell) to "US […]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Last March 2011, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) launched the Art of Politics Impact Project to address the lack of Latino commentators and guests on the four network Sunday news shows: ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, FOX News Sunday, and NBC’s Meet The Press. The […]

Here are two videos of the court footage regarding the original decision to remove Alejandrina Cabrera from the San Luis City Council ballot. Yesterday the decision was upheld by the Arizona Supreme Court. The first video is a news piece from local Arizona media. Here is another YouTube video that edited Cabrera's testimony. The video site […]

It is a story that has spread globally, from Arizona to Madrid. In December Alejandrina Cabrera, a US citizen from San Luis, Arizona was initially removed from the city's City Council ballot after it was determined that she did not possess an acceptable proficiency in the English language. The city's mayor, Carlos Escamilla, had filed […]

What to know how we feel? Let Carlos Andrés Gómez speak. Gómez performed "Juan Valdez" at the 2010 Yale Peabody Museum Poetry Slam. What exactly does a Hispanic look like? This is Gómez performing the piece at the Nuyorican.

Yesterday, Laredo Mayor Raul Salinas went on record to publicly condemn the viral "Sara Hates Laredo" YouTube video rant.   The Mayor called the video "offensive" and "racist," and makes a great case to how the young women in the video criticized bilingual citizens who live in Laredo. He also said, "As long as I […]

Marcos Lupara has a point. Just listen. Too bad this is not getting out some more, so we are sharing it here. Listen. Just preaching, he did this bit on the fly, but that is not the point. He's right. "Marcos talks about how Latinos need to acknowledge the positive members of our communities instead […]

What is going in Michigan? Looks like Peter Hoekstra, Michigan Republican candidate for Senate, took a political gamble that capitalizes on old, tired racist stereotypes against Asians. We won't say much since basically even some key leaders and pundits in Hoekstra's own GOP party are saying his Super Bowl ad and his Debbie Spend It […]

Even with stories of Super Bowl shows, Brazilian supermodel wives and a Clint Eastwood commercial, the search term "Why Sarah Hates Laredo" has clearly been the top search term for our site today. The video has been buzzing around Laredo and has begun to go viral on YouTube. NOTE: The original video has been banned […]

You would think that after the Arizona Girls Racist Video went viral, some people might reconsider about posting their rants on the public Internet. Guess not. That original video has been taken down by YouTube, but here is another version of the same video: As the YouTube profile who posted the original video said: "I […]

Who says students can't convince district school boards to act? One story out of Stockton Unified School District in California, whose district population is 59% Latino, shows that students can take action when they disagree with proposals that their school boards are considering. As the Stockton Record.net reports: STOCKTON – As the Stockton Unified school […]

Most of the online world has moved on after the Work It "Puerto Rican Drug Dealer" fiasco helped to cause the show's cancelation after only two episodes. Yet, the grassroots group Boricuas For a Positive Image continues to demonstrate every Thursday night in front of ABC's New York headquarters. It appears that even if BFPI […]

The current quartet of mainstream GOP presidential candidates are all against the current version of the DREAM Act, now that Ron Paul has spoken out the proposed bill, which is supported by 91% of US Latino voters, according to a recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center. Paul's decision to not support the DREAM […]

Tony Diaz, the leader of the Librotraficantes group, made an appearance this week on Al Jazeera in an extended segment called "Losing the Latino Vote." The segment tried to answer following: With each passing US election the Hispanic vote becomes more crucial to clinching the presidency. But does the Republican party risk alienating that constituency with its […]

If you want to see a detailed account of the ethnic studies controversy in Tucson Unified School District, the award-winning documentary "Precious Knowledge" is a good place to start. Precious Knowledge illustrates what motivates Tucson High School students and teachers to form the front line of an epic civil rights battle. Precious Knowledge is a […]