Injustice

Here is an update from Tucson Unified School District on the book ban.    From TUSD: Reports of TUSD book ban completely false and misleading Tucson Unified School District (January 17, 2012) Tucson, AZ, Jan. 17,2011 – Tucson Unified School District has not banned any books as has been widely and incorrectly reported. Seven books […]

The Ethnic Studies Ban has made headlines across the nation. Detractors have called the ban unconstitutional and  “have defended the Mexican-American studies program as no different than African-American or Native American studies classes.” Here at Latino Rebels we decided to give you a bit of an in-depth look at some of the books that are […]

Equality for all people is long overdue.

Cuando lanzamos esta página el 5 de mayo de 2011, publicamos la siguiente declaración que nos gustaría compartir ya que la última semana ha sido un viaje emocionante de visitas nuevas, nuevos lectores, nuevos enlaces y nuevas conexiones. Nuestra misión no ha cambiado pero cuando las personas llegan tarde a la fiesta, es posible que […]

“¡Libres al fin! ¡Libres al fin! Gracias a Dios omnipotente, ¡somos libres al fin!”

Yesterday, ABC pulled the plug on the Bosom Buddies ripoff show, 'Work It," after the second episode of the show garnered a pathetic 4.9 million viewers and just a 1.5 rating from the coveted 18-49 crowd, as reported by ZapIt!. The show, which has been the target of the LGBT community as well as a […]

Tonight we will be posting our thoughts about the pilot episode of the CBS sitcom ¡ROB! Our short review: the critics were right. We can do better. We don't have to settle. Why? We will let Esai Morales explain them for us. See this.

This Thursday night, a committed group went out to ABC HQ in New York to demand that ABC apologize for its now infamous "Work It" Puerto Rican Drug Dealer Joke and ask ABC that they meet with them to discuss how one of the country's largest networks can begin to portray Puerto Ricans (and all […]

Tonight the new CBS sitcom ¡ROB! premieres and already major publications like TIME and The Los Angeles Times are trashing it for its stereotypical, one-dimensional and insensitive humor, especially towards portrayals of Mexican Americans (you know, we are all gardeners, illegals, etc. etc.). Just this afternoon on Twitter, Latina Icon Dolores Huerta tweeted out to […]

GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB"   By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican actor Amaury Nolasco’s character Angel, uttered the egregious statement on national TV, “I’m Puerto Rican, I’d be great […]

The Twitter silence for Puerto Rican actor Amaury Nolasco is over. The actor, whose ABC show "Work It" face a social media controversy for a line about Puerto Rican drug deal ears, tweeted out an apology today around 5pm EST. The apology appeared on Nolasco's stream in both English and Spanish. It was more than […]

Originally posted on NYC LATINO POLITICS. Boricuas for a Positive Image will join the NYC Chapter of  the Labor Council of Latin American Advancement on Thursday January 12 at 5:30 pm at the front of the ABC Building on 66th and Columbus in New York City. Here is a video of the initial demonstration from […]

  Originally appeared on EdMorales.net. Reprinted with permission of the author. Ed Morales is a journalist who has investigated New York City electoral politics, police brutality, street gangs, grassroots activists, and the Latino arts and music scene.  He has been a Latin music Newsday columnist and longtime Village Voice contributing writer whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York […]

So, last week, someone posted a video of two young girls from Arizona with anti-Mexican racist rants that spiraled throughout the Internet and showed a lot of what is wrong in this country for US Latinos in the 21st century.   Now the two young girls have issued a "video apology." They were drunk. Your thoughts? […]

This just in from the New York City chapter of the Labor Council on Latin American Advancement: The New York City Labor Council on Latin American Advancement has called for a demonstration against ABC's portayal of Puerto Ricans as "good drug dealers" on their show "Work It." The gathering will be this Thursday. When: This […]

The videos are in, and the response has been a wave of positivity towards the true essence of what it is to be a human being living in the 21st century. Today, the Puerto Rican Alliance for Awareness, a group formed to "bring awareness to the negative stereotyping of all groups," has announced that Dr. […]

An online change.org petition has been formed by @BellaVidaLetty asking that ABC apologize for the 'Work It" January 3 premiere. Here is the text of the letter. If you would like to sign it, you can go here and SIGN THE PETITION. You can also share it. It takes only 30 seconds.   ABC apologize […]

Granted, when we first posted our initial piece about the now infamous Puerto Rican Drug Dealer Joke from the January 3 ABC premiere of "Work It," we suggested that the original joke must have been written in a sarcastic tone and that when the following scene was recorded, the sarcasm of the joke's original intent […]

The recent controversy surrounding ABC's 'Work It" sitcom has created a social media firestorm and tomorrow, Sunday January 8, in Chicago, a film crew is inviting all people of Puerto Rico to educate and let people know that they don't sell drugs. Here are the details from Puerto Rican actor Darlene Vazquetelles, and director Carlos Jiménez, who […]

The following statement, released today by New York State Assemblyman José Rivera, addresses the controversy surroudning ABC's January 3 broadcast of the network's new sitcom, "Work It," which contained a joke about Puerto Ricans as drug dealers that has caused a grassroots movement by New York's Puerto Rican community asking that ABC apologize for airing […]

Today, during a Three Kings Day celebration in Puerto Rico, Pedro Pierluisi, the island's Resident Commissioner and a non-voting member of the US House of Representatives, specifically called out Puerto Rican actor Amaury Nolasco for his portrayal of Angel on the January 3 airing of ABC's "Work It" premiere. Pierlusi's comments were published in Spanish on […]