Injustice

Here is the full video of the words President Obama gave yesterday at the eulogy for Reverend Clement Pinckney and eight other members of Emanuel AME, who were killed in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17, 2015.

DAJABÓN, Dominican Republic—On a recent afternoon in this tense border town, a hub for the flow of goods and people between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Haitian immigrants and their Dominican-born children were preparing for the worst: the mass deportations they’d been hearing about for months from railing Dominican politicians and, especially, the local media. […]

Listen, we all know that the Latino digital sphere is going crazy about what Univision did to Donald Trump today and also what Univision anchor Jorge Ramos wrote earlier this week. So it doesn’t surprise us that news about the Department of Homeland Security has gotten lost in the social media shuffle. What follows ia full statement published […]

The tears in that Spanish-speaking bible study Wednesday after Wednesday would be a part of the long process of healing. For two years, my 16-year-old soul opened up in these meetings. Most of the other participants were Latino immigrants who had just crisscrossed the continent or children of immigrants like myself still learning how to […]

Portraits of revolutionaries hang in our homes. Biographies of their lives fill our bookcases. Their public displays of courage against the injustices of the day inspire us to be eternally vigilant. But all too often our role models, especially of men for men, are largely divorced from family life in the popular imagination. Think about […]

Yes, we totally understand that giving Ann Coulter any air time on this site is hard for us, given the fact that Coulter (and her distant cousin Donald Trump) just promote hate speech. But you have to see (video below) what Rep. Luis Gutiérrez told Coulter last night on Bill Maher. Worry about the 50 […]

Yesterday, Al Jazeera English’s The Stream covered the recent events from the Dominican Republic. Here is the full episode.

Last night, VICE News went to Santo Domingo to capture the local reaction about the immigration crisis happening in the Dominican Republic. This is what Reuters reported: Dominican officials say anyone lacking identity documents or who has not registered for a so-called “regularization” program before the Wednesday night deadline could face deportation. The Dominican government […]

[View the story “Social Media Images and Videos from Dominican Republic Deportation Crisis” on Storify]

The following video from Brave New Films just dropped on its Facebook page. The group has also started a petition calling for media to stop using racial bias in their reports. White Riots VS Black Protests • BRAVE NEW FILMS Ever notice how the mainstream media treats black protestors & white rioters differently? Using the […]

La versión en inglés se encuentra aquí. Honduras nunca fue tan popular, de hecho para muchos no era más que un nombre en el mapa mundial y un pequeño país tercermundista. Sin embargo los niveles de violencia, las cifras de muertos, la proliferación de las maras y pandillas y el aumento del crimen organizado y […]

You can read the Spanish version here. Honduras has never been well-known, rather simply thought of as a small Third World country and not much more than a name on a world map. Yet the levels of violence, the death toll, a proliferation of gangs and gang activity, and an increase in organized crime and […]

Police-on-Police Racism Last year, a Black Fort Worth police officer discovered a noose on a snowman dressed as a policeman holding a banana on his desk. That launched a series of exposés on the institutional and blatant racism at the Forth Worth PD, which led to the city’s police chief resigning. Earlier this week, in McKinney, […]

Another new video from our friend César Vargas, founder of UPLIFTT (United People for Latinos in Film TV and Theater). You can catch César’s first video here.   A Message to the Black and Latino Youth Hola, Pueblo. Soy Cesar Vargas. Founder of UPLIFTT ( United People for Latinos in Film TV and Theater). Today, […]

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this post appeared on the author’s personal blog. Last June, President Obama declared the mass migration of unaccompanied Central American children across the U.S.-Mexican border as an “urgent humanitarian situation” and directed federal agencies to coordinate a response toward providing housing and other services. National media quickly picked up […]

Tonight, I received an email from my friend Katherinne Balboa Oviedo, a Chilean educator currently living in Colorado. She wrote me asking to contribute to a project to show solidarity with Chilean teachers currently on strike. The conditions facing Chilean professors is horrendous, yet frighteningly comparable to those faced by adjunct professors in the United […]

The following new video from Fusion Voices takes on the issue of immigrant detention and private prisons. Consider this video a sequel to the original Immigrant for Sale video, produced three years ago by Cuéntame. Corporations and local jails are locking up immigrants for profit. Posted by Fusion Network on Sunday, June 7, 2015

Earlier today Denver district attorney Mitch Morrissey cleared the police officers who shot and killed 17-year-old Jessica Hernandez. You can read Morrissey’s decision here: Investigation: Shooting death of Jessica Hernandez Hernandz family lawyer Qusair Mohamedbhai released the following statement after Morrissey’s decision: The Hernandez family is unsurprised but profoundly disappointed by the Denver District Attorney’s […]

As the story goes, when Louis XVI of France learned of the storming of the Bastille, he asked if it was simply another revolt, to which the Duke of La Rochefoucauld is said to have replied, “No, sire. It’s a revolution.” Given the recent unrest ignited by corruption scandals across Latin America, regional leaders must […]

Last month, UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center held a two-hour panel to discuss how a leaf blower ban in Los Angeles was defeated by a group of activists and workers. The panel features professor Álvaro Huerta, community activist Adrián Álvarez, and lawyers Scott L. Cummings and Victor Narro.

Earlier this month, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Linda Sánchez (D-CA) wrote the following letter to President Obama, calling for the “immediate release” of Oscar López Rivera. This is the full letter Latino Rebels received today. Congressional Hispanic Caucus Oscar López Rivera Letter to President Obama by Latino Rebels