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As part of yesterday’s #USTired2 national protests against Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto, this YouTube video was tweeted to us today by @asambleahouston:

Chuckle, chuckle, oh these witty comedy sites. Take the example of the latest “satire” written by Janet Eve Josselyn for the Points in Case site. Josselyn —who calls Dover, Massachusetts, her home (you should know that Dover is one really white and rich town)— decided to get all “witty” with her “humor” in a piece called […]

It’s 2015 and do you know where your latest xenophobia is coming from? The Santa Barbara News-Press, which has been around since 1855. Earlier today @ChipsterLife tweeted us the following image from the newspaper’s Saturday edition: We shared the image on our Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Not surprisingly, people reacted. The photo went viral so […]

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Now that President Obama has spoken about immigration and Cuba, the White House has several speech templates it can adapt to pay attention to the one issue no one wants to discuss but is just as important: Puerto Rico. Understanding that Puerto Rico might not be a priority for the Obama administration, not to worry. […]

The following video, called “Missing Piece,” shows how Barrios Unidos in Santa Cruz, California, has rallied around #Ayotzinapa. You can read more here.

This past Saturday, Latino Rebels Radio co-host Sharis Delgadillo took her camera to the Millions March demonstration in Los Angeles. Here is a video that Sharis filmed and edited.

Earlier today, our friends at Puerto Rico Indie posted a recent interview with Angela Davis. The Puerto Rico Indie story is in Spanish, but the interview Ezequiel Rodríguez had with Davis is in English. Here is the YouTube version of the 9-minute interview.

Editor’s Note: Originally published at BeaconReader.com. Reprinted here with permission of the author. OVERVIEW The New York Times ran a story that pitted an oil terminal against a real estate project in Vancouver, Washington. The reporter did not mention anything about the people who would be displaced by both. *** I’ve been reading Naomi Klein’s […]

There is no question that the Mexican government of Enrique Peña Nieto uses automated Twitter profiles (also known as “Peñabots”) to try and block out what the country’s Twitter users are actually saying, especially when it comes to the Iguala tragedy, which marked its three-month anniversary with more demonstrations on December 26. Such is the […]

Meet D, Texas and Tay, three breakdancing B-Boys from New York City’s underground. A few weeks ago, D and Texas arrested for dancing (not for the first time). Tay has also been arrested for dancing as well. This video, however, shows that plainclothes police (Gestapo) were used in their arrest. The criminalization of artists —particularly […]

The Late 1800s Arturo Alfonso Schomburg —born in Santurce, Puerto Rico— was a prominent figure during the Harlem Renaissance. He moved to Harlem in 1891 at the young age of 17. Schomburg was a self-proclaimed Afroborinqueño who later helped found the Negro Society for Historical Research. Known today as one of the fathers of what […]

With speculation that there is some type of progress in the case of Oscar López Rivera, the following press release was shared with Latino Rebels earlier this week. Birth of a Patriot, Star of a Nation La Respuesta magazine and National Boricua Human Rights Network call for a social media campaign on January 6, 2015 […]

According to reports from The Associated Press, The Huffington Post, and the National Law Journal, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., heard arguments from the lawyer representing Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio in his challenge to President Obama’s executive action on immigration. By all accounts, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell seemed unimpressed. Howell was hearing arguments […]

The first domino in the normalization of U.S-Cuba relations fell last Wednesday. Since the government of Fulgencio Batista fled in 1959, the 90 miles between Florida and Cuba has become a Berlin-like Wall. The actual Berlin Wall and the Cold War with the Soviet Union might have ended in 1989, but for the past 55 […]

On December 13, we received the following email from a student a Cal State Long Beach: The university promotes itself as a “liberal” institution that promotes diversity speaks or teaches about “white privilege” but deeply embedded in its institutional culture and in other pockets of the campus culture is a white supremacist, individualistic and hateful […]

This is the full video of the changes to Cuba policy President Obama shared earlier today from The White House. The White House also released a transcript (below) right about an hour after the president spoke. The White House also issued a fact sheet, as well as a statement from Secretary of State John Kerry. […]

I’d just returned to New York from a trip to Puerto Rico in 2011, when my mother recounted a family tale to me that her paternal grandfather had told her many times when she was little, one that even I had heard throughout the years. (Photo by Bella Vida Letty.) I’d invented characters and worlds […]

Earlier this year my school’s newspaper published a story about a 19-year-old undocumented student and his 55-mile ride via train to Miami Dade College, all in hopes of obtaining an education. An education that could have never been possible if it was not for the hard work of his parents and the unconditional support of […]

In case you missed it today, HuffPost Live discussed Iguala and the report implicating Mexican federal police.

In response to a lawsuit calling for an end to President Obama’s executive action on immigration relief, Texas Governor-elect (and current state Attorney General) Greg Abbott is now receiving e-letters from immigrant families on a Tumblr page called “Dear Greg Abbott:” "Dear Greg Abbott": Immigrant families are sending e-letters asking him to end Obama lawsuit. […]