Media

Responding to a quote from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, our own @rscspokenword, one of the ORIGINAL REBELDES of LatinoRebels.com, shares his thoughts through spoken word. Where Are You Really From? It always starts with a simple question And ends with bruised egos and temples. You see, this question is not really simple to answer. So when […]

Leave it to the fabulosa Laura Martínez of “Mi blog es tu blog” for finding this nugget. Apparently, according to Laura (btw, follow her @miblogestublog), the folks at Oscar Mayer posted the following ad in People en español: For those of you playing at home, this ad suggests some random flasher showing off his turkey […]

In a United States that is becoming more diverse every day, new questions about race, ethnicity and identity regularly appear in mainstream publications and discussions. Central to these debates is the country’s growing Latino population. These days, it seems every editorial outlet in the country has to write about Latinos (demographics! advertising!), even when those outlets’ Latino […]

Social media is an interesting medium. Even though LatinoRebels.com had gotten the United Farm Workers to issue a statement in 2012 about its relationship with Budweiser, new users to Twitter are basically having serious issues with Budweiser’s sponsorship of Diego Luna’s “César Chávez” film. The latest is about a video Budweiser posted a few days […]

Before we talk about Little Caesar’s annoyingly awful “Combo Mambo” commercial, we would love to ask the pizza chain if they plan to do another commercial showing off other “vintage” music styles? Maybe one inspired by this video? That’s our point. As “hip” as the following “Combo Mambo” ad is to the masses, it brings […]

UPDATE, November 23, 2015: Thompson revisited Big Papi again. And we haven’t changed our opinion. Now we REALLY know that NBC’s Saturday Night Live does not give a crap when it comes to mocking Latinos. A few weeks back, we saw a non-Latina (Cecily Strong) fail with perhaps one of the most unfunny loud Latina […]

A few days ago, one of our Twitter followers (Tomás Vera) raised an interesting point: @dadkind @McDonalds seriously? No way, do you have a link? That is crazy. — Latino Rebels (@latinorebels) April 5, 2014 We kept tweeting back and forth: @dadkind ok! once you get it pass it on we will looks as well! […]

By now you’ve probably seen the OC Weekly video of a Santa Ana school police officer pinning a 14-year-old boy to the ground with a chokehold. Understandably most people find the video disturbing and difficult to watch. I, on the other hand, love it. It’s as close to a perfect video capturing the ugliness in […]

March 7 – July 18, 2014 The 8th Floor 17 W 17th St NYC, NY 10011 Info: 646-839-5908 Open Hours: Tuesday – Thursday 11-6 and Friday 10-5 Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and originally presented at the Centro […]

Recently, I went to a film screening of “César Chávez” in Bakersfield, California. I went with my wife and children, and watched the film with a packed house of students and farmworkers at the Maya Cinemas. It was a fundraiser for FIELD (Farmworker Institute for Education and Leadership). I’m on the FIELD board and it […]

Let’s face it: the initial push to get Latinos interested in attending the opening weekend of Diego Luna’s “César Chávez” worked. From White House trips to social media chats, everyone in my social circles was fully aware that Luna’s film about the heroic labor leader was coming out the weekend of March 28, just three […]

With the new César Chávez movie coming out this week, we kind of knew that the last name of actor Michael Peña (who plays the lead) would get botched several times. No ñ. While some English-language outlets have learned to #RespectTheÑ, a few of them (see NBC News below, and Variety, for example) seem to […]

When we get a Change.org petition from one person, we give it a glance. When we get the same petition from 15 people in the same day, we tend to write a story about it. Such is the case of a petition from Puerto Rico slamming a local Dentyne Ice advertising campaign for being sexist. […]

Yeah, it looks like this “Latina problem” on Saturday Night Live is not going away. First we heard from Ms. Latina Stereotypes and then we said, “Create your own.” Now our friends, The Comedy Girls, filmed a public service open video letter to Lorne Michaels and the rest of SNL, now known as #StillNoLatinas. Watch […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Latino Rebels contributor Roberto Lovato visited Venezuela last week and wrote the following opinion piece. As of this morning, according to reports, the death toll resulting from the protests in Venezuela is at 25. The most recent violent events have occurred in San Cristóbal, near the Venezuela/Colombia border. CARACAS—Reports and imagery coming out […]

We are starting to think that SNL just wants to keep on pissing off Latinas by having Cecily Strong (who is not Latina, btw) play yet another stereotypical loud accented Latina in yet another stereotypical skit that borders on the ignorant. Here is the video. We have no words. There is funny and then there […]

UPDATE, March 4, 2014: People who questioned the validity of the photo need to know that it is real. El Nuevo Herald in Miami also published it in a photo gallery by Chilean photographer Orlando Barría. This year’s Dominican Carnival concluded yesterday in the capital city of Santo Domingo. It featured 180 processions, representing the […]

Rick Najera is still keeping it real, sharing his views from his book, “Almost White: Forced Confessions of a Latino in Hollywood.” Watch. If you haven’t checked the book out, you should. Here is the link.

As we wait to hear back from 72 and Sunny, the global ad agency responsible for a bizarrely offensive “Juanito the Illegal Immigrant” campaign for a UNHATE program sponsored by Benetton and the United Nations, we failed to mention in our original story that the agency was named Ad Week’s Agency of the Year in […]

In all seriousness, a story about listeria leading to one death and making three newborns sick is tragic, but we are still scratching our heads when we saw the following headline from an Associated Press article, as well as the first sentence from that very same article: Thinking it was a joke, we Googled the […]