Latino Rebels

This weekend we heard a story discussing the systematic “exporting” of drug addicts from many Puerto Rican municipalities to Chicago. We were disturbed both by the policy and by the way in which the story was framed in the pieces we heard. The stories we heard emphasized a corruption scheme in which Puerto Rican municipal […]

Last week, after we shared the news that a new hologram Selena Quintanilla-Pérez is a project many in our social media community thought was just “creepy,” we wrote to the company entrusted to bring back the spirit of the legendary late singer to the stage. This is the email discussion we had with Abelardo Rodríguez, […]

Meet César A. Cruz Teolol, recently featured on Meredith Vieira for his incredible work and contributions to the Latino community. Cruz, originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, came to the United States as a child to be reunited with his mother. Like many immigrant mothers, César’s mother set out for the U.S. in pursuit of a better […]

Leave it to The Economist for reminded us all that they are clueless. For an article about the rise of U.S. Latinos, this is the cover the magazine has for one of its editions. No worries, they have a China one, too. This week we have two different regional versions of our cover March 14th […]

The shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in Pasco, Washington, last month has led another family to share troubling details about the death of Brad Jensen, which happened last year in Pasco. Here is the report from local media. NBC Right Now/KNDO/KNDU Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA | For more, read here.

Remember a few weeks ago when a University of Texas fraternity’s “border patrol” party led to a letter of concern from UT students? According to local reports out of UT, university officials see no problem with the party and the Fiji frat won’t face any penalties or punishment from the school: Texas Fiji’s “border patrol” […]

In 2013, we were one of the first groups to share a video of drivers who refused to comply with DHS agents’ requests for information at their checkpoints. The video continues to be shared and it has made the social rounds so much, that someone asked us to share it again. Here it is: http://youtu.be/u4Ku17CqdZg […]

Two years ago, Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi, a non-voting member of the U.S. Congress and the leader of the island’s pro-statehood party, submitted the Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act to the House of Representatives, with the hope that his fellow voting members would act on resolving Puerto Rico’s political status. A Senate version […]

Almost a month after 23-year-old John Paul Quintero died from a confrontation with Wichita Police after his father had requested help from 911, calls for justice and a more transparent investigation continue. Last night during Wichita’s City Council meeting, supporters, including one of Quintero’s family members, attending the meeting to ask about Quintero’s death and […]

We could school Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks (R) about what he said this morning on talk radio, but Think Progress already did. But, hey, you HAVE to blame someone. Listen. [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/189303921″ params=”color=ff5500″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] All together now.

While the Mexican press was covering and tweeting about a resolution on Mexico by California state senator Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) that passed unanimously yesterday in Sacramento, we checked to see if any United States press outlets even gave Lara’s resolution a mention. That would be a no. Senador latino Ricardo Lara sube resolución a […]

The following is a 20-minute YouTube video from last Wednesday’s protest about the shooting death of 17-year-old Jessica Hernández. It was uploaded this weekend to YouTube and includes leaders from the Denver Freedom Riders

This morning, we received the following tweet: .@latinorebels ICE illegally deported Arturo Tejeda Munoz (A#202145782) on Jan 16 2015. #BringHimHome #ArturoTejeda (message for more info) — nestor guillen (@birdsnfrogs) January 23, 2015 As a follow-up to that tweet, we requested for more information about the case of Arturo Tejada Muñoz. Soon, we received an email […]

Last night Larry Wilmore’s “Nightly Show” covered Cuba. Outside of the typical cigar and rum jokes, it was a pretty good discussion. The show doesn’t embed videos yet, but click on the link here or on the photo below.

UPDATE, 11:15AM ET, January 21, 2015: The

UPDATE, January 22, 2015: New reports are saying Perez is staying on the show, although ABC or “The View” have yet to comment about the open letter. In response to a Variety report that actor Rosie Perez will be exiting ABC’s “The View” after just four months on the show, an open letter co-signed by […]

We are fairly certain that very few (if any) major media outlets mentioned the fact that yesterday’s #Dream4Justice march in New York City on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day did not just focus on the lost lives of African Americans who died at the hands of police. The names and faces of John Paul Quintero, Israel […]

Yes, one January 3 tweet from @ChipsterLife has turned into something bigger. One headline about “illegals” above a photo of unidentified people at a DMV not only led to incredibly intense reaction online, but it also caused a January 8 protest, which a reporter from the Santa Barbara News-Press

On December 13, we received the following email from a student a Cal State Long Beach: The university promotes itself as a “liberal” institution that promotes diversity speaks or teaches about “white privilege” but deeply embedded in its institutional culture and in other pockets of the campus culture is a white supremacist, individualistic and hateful […]

Over the weekend, several Spanish-language outlets reported that the FBI assisted Mexican officials in the investigation of the #Ayotzinapa case in Iguala. According to reports, Sergio Alcocer, Mexico’s Undersecretary for North America, said that FBI agents traveled to Mexico just days after the disappearances occurred to provide forensics assistance. Alcocer said that the FBI’s help […]

On December 22, 1997, 45 Tzotzil Indians were massacred in the village of Acteal, Mexico. Of the 45 who died, 21 were women and 16 were children. With the focus on Ayotzinapa continuing in Mexico along with the news that Mexican authorities were complicit in the recent Iguala mass kidnappings, the 17th anniversary of the […]