Injustice

Invisible Children, the organization behind the viral #Kony2012 campaign that has been sizzling throughout the Internet this week, posted their answers about the several questions and criticisms regarding their campaign. Here are just some highlights and answers from their official site: THEIR INITIAL STATEMENT Thank you for reading this and doing further research about Invisible […]

Yesterday, we were one of the first independent media outlets in the world to raise questions about the two sides of the #Kony2012 controversy. By continuing to ask questions about a viral campaign that literally set the Internet on fire, we were commended by many. To all those who dig deeper and look for facts, […]

UPDATE: Invisible Children has addressed the questions and critiques listed here as well as other critiques. When something goes viral as quickly as the #Kony2012 video did, the initial reaction is to share. Millions and millions of people online did just that over the last two days, creating a topic that, quite frankly, was not […]

For all the Friday videos, 'Sh*t" memes, and images of dads shooting their laptops, once in a while good happens on the Internet and injustices become part of the global consciousness. That is the case of #Kony2012 and #StopKony. KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo. The campaign launched on March 5 and it has […]

Last week, the Latino Rebels were presented with the opportunity to write about a new web series called "The Guzman Show," which is the story about a stereotypical Mexican family that includes a cholo baby, pregnant teen and a goat, described as “a Latin-American Family Guy drenched in Tapatío hot sauce and created by a […]

The Puerto Rican Alliance for Awareness (PRAA), a non-profit organization founded by Carlos Jiménez Flores and Darlene Vazquetelles that is bringing awareness to the negative stereotyping of all groups, released its much-anticipated video today. The goal? To educate the world about the REAL FACES of Puerto Ricans, both on the island and on the mainland. So […]

Last week MySanAntonio.com reported that the city's proposed mural of a sleeping Mexican being considered for the revitalization of a historic drive-in has drawn protests and anger by several Latino activists and artists. The issue? The city wants to re-create the Mission Drive-In's original art, which showed Mission San José as well as two men […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT NYCLATINOPOLITICS.COM BY JULIO PABON The two-week grace period that Boricuas For a Positive Image (BFPI) had extended as a courtesy to ABC-TV for their efforts to schedule a meeting runs out on March 8th, 2012. So on Thursday March 8th we look forward to seeing all our friends and new acquaintances again on 66th Street and […]

This is definitely a photo you don't want to open at work, but it is a photo that must be shared, especially if you are someone who believes that this world still suffers from problems of race and hate speech. The story comes out of UCLA and we heard about it when one of our […]

In 21st century America, the new racism is as follows: Share racist content. Admit it is racist. Then deny you are not a racist and it was just a misunderstanding. The latest example is Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull, who, according to a report by the Great Falls Tribune in Montana, admitted that he […]

Thinking that the whole CafePress Anti-Mexican mess was over after the latest snafu (F*ck Illegals), we wanted to go back to the site and make sure that one of the world's top websites was closely enforcing its process again. The first thing we did was check over the company's content policy, which we posted here […]

UPDATE: Around 7pm EST, the "F*ck Illegals" section has been taken down. Looks like CafePress needs more employees or better servers, because they truly have some very suspect filtering systems. Our staff spent a little more time on the site today to see what other products they are selling, and after a reader suggested we enter the […]

Around 7pm EST today, we reported that CafePress issued a statement about the article we wrote about its "Anti-Mexican Gifts" section, and when an astute reader check the page, the "Anti-Mexican Gifts" section was taken down. Nonetheless, another reader alerted us that CafePress still has an "Anti=Mexico Gifts" section, and that section is still up […]

Last night, the Rebeldes posted the following piece about CafePress' "Anti-Mexican Gifts" section. The piece generated some very quick social media buzz and reaction, and tonight  the PR agency for CafePress sent us the following statement:  As you may know, CafePress is an automated e-commerce service that allows users to upload merchandise designs into online shops and/or the […]

Rebelde Charlie Vázquez breaks down this weekend's LibroTraficante event in New York City. For more information about how you can help, go to LibroTraficante.com. Writer and literary activist Charlie Vázquez talks about the Librotraficante project, the banning of Latino Studies materials in Arizona and how a similar book ban would affect Nuyoricans and those of […]

This one is personal. When our boss @julito77 began his professional career as an editor in 1991, the call for authentic US Latino literature was just in its infancy, and one of the goals in the education space was to promote this literature to the K-12 world. In his early years, Julito helped to commission […]

UnivsionNews posted a teaser of what will surely be a very intense and heated interview this Sunday on Al Punto. Here is a video clip (in English) where Jorge Ramos interviews Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In this segment, Arpaio says that he will reveal more information about President Obama's birth certificate on March 1 […]

  The official TipsyCake Facebook page offered this statement from Owner Naomi Levine. This was posted today around 3:15 EST. TipsyCake Dear Fans I would like to sincerely apologize to the Humboldt Park Community for my insensitive comments made in the City Soles interview that was posted on our Facebook page on February 21st With […]

The last 12 hours have been a bit heady in the social media story of Tipsy Cake, whose owner sparked a controversy with comments about life in Chicago's Humboldt Park. This afternoon, a community press conference/protest/boycott was held and according to live tweets from @hijorge, the scene was "intense" and many business owners and students […]

Naomi Levine, the owner of Tipsy Cake in Chicago, might want to consider making her personal Facebook page private and not searchable. In the last few days, Levine's Facebook profile page, which is publicly visible on the Internet for anyone in the world to read (but not comment), included a few posts that suggest that […]

Late night Wednesday at 11:45 CST, Tipsy Cake bakery decided to respond to @latinorebels via Twitter after receiving a multitude of mentions from the social media community about their inappropriate comments during a video interview. Here are screen shots of the exchange in chronological order.