Media

I am still trying to figure out what kind of format this weekly column will take. I think that I should try to educate as well as chronicle some of my experiences but I have a feeling that I will just let the format evolve as it will. To begin with I want to show off just […]

We take a moment to let everyone know that people spend real time and money to produce these political videos. You know, because… those “illegals.” First up, this video has one real dramatic voiceover. Next, NumbersUSA. Yes, this is real. But the commercial is confusing. It says “immigrants” at one point then says “legal immigrants?” […]

The following video created by the YouTube channel of Boston for Ayotzinapa shows 136 students of 43 countries and five universities (Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Berklee College of Music and Tufts) standing in solidarity with the 43 missing students from Mexico. Last week, the group posted this video.

In case you missed it, here is today’s Google Doodle from Google. The music is “La Bruja,” and this version is being played by Little Jesus. As expected, a lot of people really liked it (the following is just a sample of reactions): Have y'all seen the Google doodle today? It's a gorgeous little animation […]

The following “story” can easily be called a Streeeeetch, but it is a real published story by The Daily Caller. Seriously it is. This is what TheDC’s Patrick Howley wrote on October 29, under the headline, “La Raza Promotes Washington Post Guide On Where People Can Vote Without An ID:” The pro-amnesty Hispanic activist organization […]

In a segment earlier this morning on MSNBC’s José Díaz-Balart spoke to Buzzfeed’s Adrian Carrasquillo and our own Julio Ricardo Varela, founder of Latino Rebels, about the immigration action expected from the White House before the end of the year. While Adrian discussed his piece about how the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security […]

This morning, Charlie Vázquez, a founding member of Latino Rebels, went on HuffPost Live to discuss Google’s latest venture, .Soy, and why it is facing some challenges in parts of the online Latino community. Other guests included @CaritoJuliette of HuffPost Latino Voices Editor and @AnaRC, the founder of Latinos in Tech Innovation & Social Media […]

Many online have some important questions for Google regarding their new Latino-focused initiative .Soy since it launched on October 16, and they’ve been asking them via various mediums. Google describes .Soy as a “domain name for Latino identity and expression on the web.” It also says that “.Soy is the place for online Latinos.” Which […]

After catching the first two segments, catch part three here.

Sephora University was created by the global cosmetics store to “transform each employee into a genuine Brand Ambassador and guide them through their careers.” Recently, an internal document obtained by Latino Rebels and branded by Sephora University was shared with Sephora employees. It shows a step-by-step makeup guide for employees to celebrate Día de los […]

Our friends at the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) have a knack for cutting through the noise and getting to the issue. Last week, the NHFA wrote a letter to the respective heads of HBO and Starbucks about one very simple issue: Where are the Latino performers in the upcoming Concert for Valor […]

A new short documentary called “Makeshift Americas” is trying to bring more awareness to the issue of forced labor in Latin America by focusing on research-based case studies in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. The group behind the film, led by Ana Maria Defillo, has produced a short about the project, with the hopes of raising […]

This past Monday I started working at a producer of legal marijuana in The Evergreen State of Washington. This means I work at a state-licensed farm where the plant of many names is grown, harvested, processed and packaged for sale at retail stores where it can be purchased much like at a liquor store. I […]

I have become highly skeptical of immigration movies. I don’t know why, but maybe it’s because our collective has received so many emails this year, that it suddenly feels like overkill. Immigration rights is a “hot topic,” and while more and more projects have become real movies and even Oscar winners, very little has happened […]

Tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before the screening of Underwater Dreams at MIT, @julito77 interviewed José Gómez, one of the first MIT students to publicly declare that he is undocumented. Here is the full interview: Earlier today Latino Rebels received the following release about the MIT students who announced their undocumented status tonight: Today, in conjunction […]

A few days ago we posted Part One of The Mike Brown Rebellion from Rebel Díaz’s “Ñ Don’t Stop” show on TeleSurEnglish. Here is Part Two:

UPDATE: MassLive reported news of the decision with detailed minutes of the decision. And apparently, the initial reports by Latino Rebels about an October 7 vote was accurate. That came a day after the council voted 10-5 to override Morse’s veto of an order the council had approved Oct. 7 to establish an indefinite moratorium […]

This past July, Janet Van Huysse (@janetvh), Twitter’s Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion, wrote a rather high-profile post about the company’s serious diversity challenges, promising that Twitter was going to make “diversity an important issue for ourselves.” Van Huysse shared some rather disheartening data reflecting how Twitter’s diversity problem confirmed the tech industry’s own […]

As a follow-up to a #FergusonOctober commentary piece he wrote last Friday for this page, Rebel Diaz’s Rodrigo Starz wanted to share his group’s latest “Ñ Don’t Stop” episode on TeleSur English: “The Mike Brown Rebellion, Part One.”

MISSION DISTRICT, SAN FRANCISCO—A new age is upon us, the Age of Soy. No, I’m not talking about some new genetically-modified organism that will (further) fundamentally alter the corn in our tacos, the gas in our cars or the farmland of the Midwest. The development of which I speak has to do with how Mountain […]

Last month, WalletHub labeled Salinas, California, as the second least educated city out of the largest 150 metro areas in the United States. The story was featured on Forbes.com, and soon made headlines in Salinas’ news platforms and across social media. The study, of course, is problematic and flawed on so many levels. First, the WalletHub post defined “educated” while not going […]