Latino Rebels

The Los Angeles Times reported that Univision has cancelled the “Piolín” radio show: Univision Radio Network has dropped “Piolín por la Manana,” the wildly popular, nationally syndicated Spanish-language morning radio talk show hosted by Southern California-based Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo, a Univision spokesperson confirmed. No reason has been given for the reported dropping of the show, […]

Yesterday, the National Immigration Youth Alliance and DreamActivist organized an action where several DREAMers who self-deported to Mexico, crossed the pedestrian crossing in Nogales, Sonora, and were detained by United States immigration officials. The action was part of a #BringThemHome campaign that highlights the 1.7 million people deported during the Obama administration by testing the […]

We got this one from Jezebel’s Groupthink page. Not surprisingly, stories like these have become way too common. From music stars to Whole Foods to a student suing a community college, the “speak English, dammit” crowd is a permanent part of the Internet, even if it means life and death. Here’s the scoop: on July […]

Almost three months have passed since the in-custody death of David Sal Silva in Bakersfield occurred, and key questions still remain about how Silva died and whether deputies from the Kern County Sheriff’s office were responsible for it. This weekend The Bakersfield Californian published two articles with updates about the case. In one article, there […]

Get over it, haters. How much do we LOVE Marc Anthony’s response to all those so-called Americans who slammed him for singing “God Bless America” at this week’s MLB All-Star game? A lot. That video has been shared over 27,000 times and has also gotten over 15,000 likes in just 24 hours. Even George Lopez […]

You knew that pop icon Marc Anthony would eventually respond to all the online haters who slammed him for singing “God Bless America” at this week’s MLB All-Star Game in Queens, New York. This is what Anthony said on “Live with Kelly and Michael” today: There were some statements made that people were upset that […]

Guess that Twitter will now be the place to direct hate and racism towards ANY LATINO singing either the national anthem or “God Bless America.” After last month’s Sebastien de le Cruz controversy, this week pop star Marc Anthony was the subject of the typical “Go Back to Mexico” and “American people should sing the […]

To sue or not to sue. Looks like Asiana Arilines has changed its mind and will not sue Oakland station KTVU for broadcasting racist Asian joke names last Friday during a report about the Asiana plane that crashed July 6 in San Francisco. Here is what Asiana said in a statement: “Asiana Airlines has decided […]

First zombie movies and now TLC reality shows. All you need to know about TLC’s “Wedding Island,” broadcasting tomorrow night, is this: But let’s continue. As one blogger writes: We spent all that time protesting all over the country and in Vieques itself to force the Navy to stop using it as target practice for […]

Yesterday NBC Latino reported that the National Council of La Raza “has joined the NAACP, National Action Network, National Urban League and other advocacy organizations in asking to meet with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss possible next steps by the federal government just two days after a Florida jury acquitted George Zimmerman of […]

Race didn’t play into the Zimmerman verdict? Not at all? Race and perceptions of it didn’t even cross the jurors’ mind? Right, this was never about race. Listen to Juror B37 last night on CNN. Memo: Spanish people are from Spain. There is a general rule that anyone who refers to U.S. Latinos as Spanish […]

Add this one to the one of life’s guarantees. As Deadspin puts it, “It’s growing increasingly predictable that whenever the Spanish language appears on ESPN, angry responses are sure to come from viewers.” We have see this so many times now that we aren’t even surprised by it any more. It happened last year with Robbie Canó’s […]

Starting this past Friday, Oakland’s KTVU faced an online storm few have ever seen after reading and broadcasting racist Asian joke names in a report about the pilots who flew the Asiana Airlines plane that crashed July 6 in San Francisco. Even after the National Transportation Safety Board commented about the incident, many still felt […]

In response to a not guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, here is what the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released last night: (Orlando) The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People released the following statement on the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the killing of Trayvon Martin: NAACP […]

One of the most bizarre media stories ever got a bit more clearer after the National Transportation Safety Board said that a summer intern was the person who confirmed the racist Asian joke names that Oakland station KTVU was planning to broadcast in a report about the pilots on the Asiana flight that crashed in […]

UPDATE: NTSB adds more clarification to statement. Can the story of the now infamous racist Asian names broadcast on live TV get any crazier? Yes. After Oakland’s KTVU was slammed online for broadcasting the fake joke Asian names of pilots who were on the Asiana flight that crashed in San Francisco last Saturday, causing the […]

UPDATE: NTSB adds more clarification to statement. UPDATE: The NTSB confirmed that a summer intern was the one who confirmed the joke names the station was asking about. Seriously? We got this one from 8Asians.com, and yes, it actually happened. Watch this report from Oakland’s KTVU: The station had to apologize after the break: SFGate.com […]

Now that the George Zimmerman trial is with the jury for deliberations, the world anxiously awaits the verdict of one of the most publicized trials in this history of the United States (at least it felt that way due to social media). And guess what narrative has come back? The whole “White Hispanic” thing, which […]

After the story of a Target manager handbook providing bizarre multicultural tips about Latinos went viral on the Internet, the company issued a statement to The Huffington Post. Here is what Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder shared with the HuffPost: It is never Target’s intent to offend our team members or guests and we apologize. The […]

Responding to growing community criticism about the placement of a prominent Goya logo at the base of the new Roberto Clemente statue at Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx, the company’s public relations director defended Goya’s decision, saying that Clemente’s own son told him to not do anything to change the logo. Rafael Toro […]

We caught this from The HuffPost, which picked it up from The Courthouse News. According to a CN post, Target was accused in a lawsuit of offending employees for a “multicultural tips” to inform store managers “that not all Hispanic employees eat tacos, dance to salsa or wear sombreros.” The CN stories continues: Robert Gonzalez, […]