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The young actress is an international ambassador.

Profiling a Chicana educator who’s worked tirelessly for the equality of all people.

In a new full-length documentary, Abby Martin of ‘The Empire Files’ examines the not-so-secret war against migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.

We don’t get it.

It’s time to just admit that the “Latino vote” is way too complicated to put into a box.

“The Latino community deserves respect. We need someone that respects our philosophy and our culture.”

An online platform that launches on the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico is an homage to social protest

The author talks about her play and the diversity problem perpetuated even within the Latino community

Two years before Donald Trump thought migrants from Latin America were “bringing crime” and “rapists,” he had become an advocate for fair and comprehensive immigration reform. Back in 2013, NBC News reported a meeting between the billionaire GOP frontrunner and “youth immigrant leaders Jose Machado, Diego Sanchez and nationally renowned Dreamer Gaby Pacheco of The Bridge Project at […]

Many people are unaware of just how dark a flourishing and shady police subculture really is. Police brutality has been brought to the forefront of society, perhaps due to the influx of social media usage and smartphones. Today we are catching gross violations of the law carried out by police officers who have been sworn […]

I am the oldest daughter of Colombian immigrants. I was born and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens. Seven years ago, after graduating from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, I made a decision to follow my dreams of being a producer. I had a great professor in my elective media class at John Jay, and […]

Puerto Rican neo-fiction seeks to address the social and psychological problems that afflict modern Puerto Rico, whether in regard to ‘self-racism,’ neo-colonialism, foreign influence, identity crisis and the effects of issues that have afflicted the island for the last two hundred years. The genre would not be bound by single traditional genres such as horror […]

Bajo la bandera de la descolonización se han visto alianzas raras e inesperadas. Se han visto figuras tan opuestas como Rubén Berríos y Pedro Rosselló compartiendo el mismo podio en las Naciones Unidas para denunciar el colonialismo. De la misma forma, el pre-candidato a la gobernación Ricky Rosselló dirigió el movimiento “no partidista” Boricua ¡Ahora […]

Today, during a cross-border running race that brought runners through El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who ran the race, decided to show off his new baseball cap—a clear response to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hat. The Texas Democrat’s social media account made sure that people saw his hat: . […]

Via VICE News and the New York Review of Books: In this episode, Alma Guillermoprieto discusses her article “Mexico: The Murder of the Young,” in which she follows the story of 43 students from a teacher’s college in the Mexican state of Guerrero who disappeared last year at the hands of corrupt police and a […]

Leave it to Rep. Beto O’Bourke (D-Texas) for trying to bring some sanity into the debate surrounding Donald Trump. Beto speaks the truth. In case you missed it, here is last night's interview on All In with Chris Hayes. Posted by Congressman Beto O'Rourke on Friday, July 24, 2015

At a Pride Reception this past month at the White House, Latina Trans organizer Jennicet Gutiérrez of Familia TQLM and GetEqual interrupted an all too jovial speech from President Obama about what his administration has done for the LGBT Community in the U.S. The interruption led to him dismissing her and ordering she be escorted […]

Here is just yet another example of how something from a few years back will hit a sweet digital spot a few years later. This past Wednesday, the Facebook page of Omar y Argelia shared the following video of Mariachi Monumental de México singing the national anthem at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago. The Facebook […]

Today, NPR’s Latino USA produced a show about a topic a lot of the Rebeldes love: baseball. The audio is below, and there’s a moment where our very own jefe reveals how he stopped being a Yankees fan to become a (gasp) Red Sox fan.

Unless you were literally living under a glacier in Antarctica while being raised by penguins for the last 20 years, you must’ve heard of (according to Argentinean band “Los Cafres”) the best Spanish reggae band out there: Cultura Profética. These rebels with many causes combine complex melodic harmonies and hypnotic syncopated beats with an I’m-out-of-fucks-to-give […]

Dedicated to my greatest teachers—the immigrant population of the United States. To those that like many of my family members, who suffer under a broken and racist immigration system, have not yet been able to bury their dead or cry at their graves. Nothing more powerful than the New York Subway In its serendipity led […]