Latinidad

2012 was certainly a turning point for the Latino Rebels. The year began with a little bit of luck, which led to spectacular growth, a highly engaged social media community, and 50+ Rebelde stories being picked up by global and national media outlets. Yesterday our founder @julito77 had a chance to talk about the history […]

Today Al Jazeera's "The Stream" featured the recent events in Puerto Rico regarding the brutal murder of publicist José Enrique Gómez and the social media movements that resulted from recent events. The following video focuses on #TodosSomosJoseEnrique and #BoicotLaComay. "

In October, we ran a piece called "Now Ben Affleck Is Latino: Another Lost Opportunity for Hollywood." As we tried to stray away from the "we're offended" line that many of our critics tossed our way (because that was not the point of the piece, if people actually took the time to read it and not […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT THREE SONORANS One of the most important parts of the federal desegregation court order on Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is the new Unitary Status Plan (USP) which is being worked on right now. Over the next three days, ending at midnight on November 28th, 2012, the public nationwide has an important role […]

Recently, Latino Rebels founder @julito77 ;wrote a very thought-provoking post called ;The Perils of “Latino” Marketing: Lessons Learned from the “Los IceHogs” Hockey Night. It wasn’t clear to some people why trying to appeal to the Hispanic community with a promotional poster of maracas, Corona, and Dora the Explorer can be problematic. So Julito explained […]

Earlier today, the Facebook page of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts shared a public update about the Kennedy Canter and its dismal history of overlooking Latino for the Kennedy Center Honors awards (only 2 in just 35 years). Apparently the issue is now on the radar screen of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus: KenCen Update: […]

File this one under the "unfortunate" files. As reported by the local Brownsville press, a school sign about the Thanksgiving holiday has gone viral on Facebook and it is eliciting responses that range from the humorous to the ugly. According to reports, officials at Cummings Middle School confirmed that the sign was real and that […]

Today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Illinois Congressman Luis Guitiérrez wanted to introduce the Republican Party to U.S. Latinos. Again. As his YouTube channel says: Rep. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL) took to the floor of the House of Representatives to introduce the Republican Party to Latinos as a way of underscoring the […]

Editor's Note: We are proud to call Tony Diaz, the Librotraficante, a key member of the Latino Rebels familia. I was recently knighted. I didn’t fully understand what was happening at the time as I flew to New York. But I did know that we were making history. All around the nation Librotraficantes convened, on […]

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AT JULIORVARELA.COM Last night the island of Puerto Rico experienced a historic election. Not only did Puerto Ricans go to the polls to vote for Governor, Resident Commissioner, and other legislative positions, they also voted in yet another non-binding plebiscite that tried to determine whether Puerto Ricans favored its current commonwealth relationship with […]

On this Day, many through out the U.S., Mexico and Latin America will be celebrating El Día de los Muertos, a holiday founded on indigenous beliefs that on this day the dead come to visit the living. It is family event in which people go visit the graves of deceased loved ones and create ofrendas displaying […]

If you want to catch a very unique film, we highly recommend "Nostalgia for the Light" from PBS. (Shout out to @vato for the tip.) Here is a description about the film: Patricio Guzmán's Nostalgia for the Light is a remarkable meditation on memory, history and eternity. Chile’s remote Atacama Desert, 10,000 feet above sea […]

Earlier this month the Latino Leadership Council of the University of Texas (UT Latinos) produced a video that speaks to the critical importance of the US Latino vote this election year. Watch as these young Latino leaders tell you why 2012 is so important. Get out and vote!

REBELDES' NOTE: For those who are keeping score at home, the following is an unsolicited review. No one asked us to write about this. 100% opinions are our own, just like everything we do here. Last Friday night, we were intrigued by "The Legend of La Llorona" episode from NBC's GRIMM. When we found out […]

From the YouTube channel of IDREAM Campaign: IDREAM campaign and A 1986 Project is proud to present "Untitled" a 12-episode series documenting the faces of undocumented youth in Arizona. In this short teaser of Angelica Hernandez's Untitled Piece, she shares with us what being a Dreamer means to her. To learn more about the IDREAM […]

Now we get releases every day, and most of them really don't get us interested, but when The National Hispanic Media Coalition shares their news with us, 9 times out of 10, we pay attention. Who is the NHMC? It is a "non-partisan, non-profit, media advocacy and civil rights organization created to advance American Latino […]

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was co-written by Ivan Sanchez and Jane Gabriels, Director of Pepatián. For further information please feel free to contact any of the organizations linked in this article.  By now it is of no great surprise to know that when our country enters into an economic recession, the first programs to lose funding are […]

Univision: Turning 50 is a great age to focus on your assets and eliminate your liabilities. Personal Reflection: I’ve never understood Univision but now more than ever, I definitely want to try. At first it was because of youth and I lived in an English-dominant exterior and preferred the neighbor’s MTV. Then, it was because […]

Last night, the presidential debate was all about the Middle East, Israel, mixed in with a little bit of China. All we really heard about Latin America was this from Governor Romney (oh yeah, he also mentioned that President Obama likes to cozy up with Castro and Chávez): Number two, we're going to increase our […]

Now THIS is news that matters, and we actually kind of serious about that. NBC Latino, which ran with a Disney Latina princess story last week that led to thousands of shares and comments about Latino identity, reported today that Disney has changed its mind about Princess Sofía, who originally was billed as Disney's first […]

In a few weeks, US voters will take to the polls in one of the most important elections of our generation. Our friends at Pícaro Media, a cool new Chicago agency that produces premium content for the bilingual and bicultural US Latino demographic, created this user-generated video about the importance of voting. We love it. Let […]