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Sean Penn may have only the best intentions to tease his buddy Alejandro González Iñárritu and get a light-hearted comedic relief, but intentions can only take one so far. Intentions do not always translate to impact. I agree with fellow Latino Rebels contributor Hector Luis Alamo that Penn has used his celebrity status to bring resources to […]

I didn’t watch the Oscars last night (untouched by the agony of one of longest events known to humankind), but I still woke up to the Sean Penn “green card” controversy. By now, you know what happened. Ha! Funny! Isn’t it? Many didn’t think so, and social media soon exploded. Was Penn racist? I don’t […]

I read the news today, oh boy… Seems Sean Penn went all Sean Penn at the Oscars last night. Before announcing Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman as this year’s Best Picture, Penn asked, “Who gave this sonofabitch his green card?” Iñárritu had already won for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. The joke wasn’t particularly […]

This weekend, our friends at NPR’s Latino USA spent a whole day in a New York City bodega.

In perhaps one of the most boring Oscars ever (excluding one incredible acceptance speech by Common and John Legend), the last five minutes of the broadcast got everyone worked up. It happened when actor Sean Penn muttered the following right before letting the world know that Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman won Best Picture: As expected, […]

Why waste four hours watching the Academy Awards when you can just catch “Rebel Report” host R.J. Aguiar give out the Golden Llama Awards in just five minutes.

Here’s an actual assignment I give to students in my government classes: When you go home, ask if your parent what they think of former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Write their response down and be prepared to discuss it in class tomorrow. Here’s what I tell the class that I anticipate: Black parents […]

When a Puerto Rican wins the Powerball, it’s time to invoke the second amendment and load our guns. That is the message that went out when a $564 million Powerball lottery was held on February 11 and one of the three winning tickets was sold in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Almost immediately, Latino Rebels reported a national spate of offensive tweets, which […]

In yet another example of a news outlet where a non-Latino attempts to report on Latinidad, Dara Lind’s Vox article attempts to jump from data to analysis without digging deeper or at least presenting a more authentic picture of the original study Lind cites. If you read the title of the article, “Grandkids of Latino immigrants […]

Earlier today, one of our Twitter followers sent us this tweet: Roswell, NM newspaper publishes cartoon this week suggesting Blacks and Latinos leave town: http://t.co/54P6CoMn6d — Mónica Ortiz Uribe (@MOrtizUribe) February 18, 2015 So we clicked on the link, which took us to the site of the Roswell Daily Record and this editorial cartoon: That […]

If growing up, you were given or not given things, opportunities or even certain sermones, it most likely had to do with your gender. If you were a girl and wanted to run around the patio instead of playing indoors, a relative may have called you impropia. If you were a boy and wanted to […]

There are certain topics in the Latino digital space that will always get attention, no matter when, no matter how. For example, Danny Trejo, Marc Anthony memes, silly videos about speaking Spanish, Chespirito and Selena Quintanilla. Especially Selena. Because, you know, “anything for Salinas.” Yesterday, the admiration was front and center on our Facebook site, after […]

Toronto-based VarageSale is one of the hotter apps around, earning the 2014 Startup of the Year award in Canadian tech circles. According to its own marketing copy, the app is “the fun way to buy and sell in your trusted local community.” Think virtual garage sales, with local pages run by local administrators and you […]

Here is another longer video showing different angles of this week’s shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in Pasco, Washington.

“Jane, you ignorant slut.” So began the famed catchphrase by Saturday Night Live’s Dan Aykroyd to Jane Curtin in their weekly running comedy sketch on NBC. Somewhere rushing around in my brain is a similar phrase I’d like to use with Lorne Michaels, the creator and executive producer of the four-decades-long SNL late-night comedy show. […]

I’ll admit: when our group decided to do a quick goofy story about really insane Twitter reactions to the news that one of the winning Powerball tickets came from Puerto Rico, there was nothing out of the ordinary. We had done these types of stories for years, and quite frankly, we had been doing less […]

A graphic yet troubling video of Pasco police officers shooting and killing Antonio Zambrano Montes has gone viral on YouTube in the last two days. According to local media accounts, Zambrano Montes, a homeless migrant worker originally from Mexico, was hurling rocks at officers. This the YouTube video (CREDIT: Dario Infante Zuniga/ViralHog.com): This is what […]

AUSTIN—On Thursday afternoon, members of the Latino Community Affairs (LCA) organized a nonviolent United Against Racism March protest in response to the Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji) fraternity party where some guests wore sombreros, ponchos, “border patrol” shirts and construction hats. More than 300 protesters showed up to the event and listened to several speakers before marching […]

So last night’s Powerball drawing had three big winners: one in North Carolina, one in Texas and one in Puerto Rico. As you might expect, news of the Puerto Rico winner is getting the ignorant few a bit testy this morning. First up, one of our Rebeldes of El Paso told us that KLAQ’s Lisa […]

Spoiler Alert: I haven’t seen Boyhood. I hear it’s a good movie, but a three-hour drama (or any genre for that matter at that running time) is a little hard for me to swallow. Second Spoiler Alert: I don’t know Grisel Y. Acosta nor do I visit her personal blog. Third (and final) Spoiler Alert: […]

EDITOR’S NOTE, February 12, 2015: When Awards Daily was made aware of this story, they let us know that their group felt a bit blindsided about the fact that the author of this piece shared an email conversation with our group. To clarify: the author of this piece approached us after receiving a response from […]