Media

After talking with Latino Rebels yesterday about the recent controversy surrounding the decision to strip the title of Little Miss Hispanic Delaware from seven-year-old Jakiyah McKoy because McKoy lacked “the proper documentation” to prove she was Latina, Nuestras Raíces Delaware sent us the following Facebook message tonight: The recent issue of El Tiempo Hispano with […]

Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on the official blog of the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors (HOLA). HOLA has granted us permission to post. A common complaint is that Latinos don’t see themselves enough in film and television. (Or if we are on television and film screens, the images of ourselves can be quite […]

A Latina President is really not as far-fetched an idea as sellout mainstream media would have you believe. Media conglomerates have never made even the tiniest effort to portray Latinas honestly, equally nor anywhere near accurately. They’ve also failed to give Latinas equal employment in positions of influence and power. They complain there’s no audience […]

Just as I was about to move on from the media story that has every Latino journalist person talking, something changed last night. Before I go into those details, I wanted to provide some updates surrounding the controversy that occurred this past Sunday at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) conference in Anaheim, where […]

This afternoon Hugo Balta, president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), posted the following statement on his public Facebook page in response to accusations from Hector Barajas, a Latino GOP strategist that hE was kicked off an NAHJ Latino vote panel this weekend, because California’s Speaker of the Assembly John A Pérez, a […]

This weekend, we chatted via email with Xavier Luis Burgos, editor of La Respuesta (“The Answer”), a new online magazine dedicated to the Puerto Rican Diaspora. Yeah, we are supporting this magazine because we believe it is important to support these types of initiatives. Read on. What is La Respuesta? Why now? XLB: La Respuesta […]

Earlier today, we received the following tweet from @EricRubiel: “@plaqueta:..casting para publicidad de @AeroMexico_com. Especifican que no quieren a NADIE MORENO…pic.twitter.com/YbLVi3ugIX” @latinorebels — Eric(杜闿棣) (@EricRubiel) August 14, 2013 The tweet took us to @plaqueta, who had tweeted the following image in Spanish on August 12: The image, according to @plaqueta, referred to an casting call […]

So this is how it happens. First Fusion’s Jorge Rivas writes an opinion piece over the weekend, saying that the Spanish word “indocumentado” does not mean “illegal immigrant” in Google Translate’s web page translation service. Then, Rivas gets Google to comment. Now, according to Rivas, Google Translate has fixed the issue. Here is what he […]

The following video was shared with us last week. Produced by Project Bronx, the segment explores how Spanish is no longer a “foreign language” in the Bronx. Like the YouTube channel says: Language barriers create a divide and unnecessary insecurities. The Bronx is made up of 1/3 of New York City’s Latino population. NYC has […]

In response to a story about the possibility that Telemundo PR was negotiating for the return of “SuperXclusivo” to Puerto Rican television, the founder of Latino Rebels.com sent a LinkedIn email to José Cancela, President of Telemundo PR, requesting comment about what was posted on Facebook. Our founder also made the request on Telemundo PR’s […]

UPDATE, 3:00 pm EST: The president of Telemundo PR has responded to our founder’s request for comment, calling the rumors “false and absurd.” He also threatened to notify his security team as a result of that request. This morning the Facebook page of Boicot a La Comay, the social media community that successfully campaigned to […]

Now don’t get us wrong. The following video which we posted yesterday morning rocks. In fact, it is our most popular post of the summer. It is the kind of video the explains itself, and Mexico’s Diego Luna is flipping funny in it. Seriously, the show bleeped out #NoMames? By the way, this is funny, […]

This has not been a great week for Chivas USA, the MLS team from Los Angeles. HBO “Real Sports” explored the accusations of racial discrimination lawsuit from two former coaches. The suit alleges that the coaches were dismissed because they were not Latino and they couldn’t speak Spanish. According to the LA Times, the two […]

You know it would be coming. How could someone NOT get fired for what happened on July 12 during the now infamous KTVU broadcast? Yesterday Rich Lieberman’s 415 Media blog reported the following exclusive: OUT! at KTVU  BREAKING NEWS from 415 Media Roland De Wolk: Investigate Producer Cristina Gastelu: Special Projects Producer Brad Belstock: Producer **Three independent sources […]

Yesterday morning we made our case for deporting Iowa congressman Steve King. You know, because he said the following when talking about DREAMers and a path to citizenship: “For everyone who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds […]

The Los Angeles Times reported that Univision has cancelled the “Piolín” radio show: Univision Radio Network has dropped “Piolín por la Manana,” the wildly popular, nationally syndicated Spanish-language morning radio talk show hosted by Southern California-based Eddie “Piolín” Sotelo, a Univision spokesperson confirmed. No reason has been given for the reported dropping of the show, […]

Get over it, haters. How much do we LOVE Marc Anthony’s response to all those so-called Americans who slammed him for singing “God Bless America” at this week’s MLB All-Star game? A lot. That video has been shared over 27,000 times and has also gotten over 15,000 likes in just 24 hours. Even George Lopez […]

You knew that pop icon Marc Anthony would eventually respond to all the online haters who slammed him for singing “God Bless America” at this week’s MLB All-Star Game in Queens, New York. This is what Anthony said on “Live with Kelly and Michael” today: There were some statements made that people were upset that […]

To sue or not to sue. Looks like Asiana Arilines has changed its mind and will not sue Oakland station KTVU for broadcasting racist Asian joke names last Friday during a report about the Asiana plane that crashed July 6 in San Francisco. Here is what Asiana said in a statement: “Asiana Airlines has decided […]

First zombie movies and now TLC reality shows. All you need to know about TLC’s “Wedding Island,” broadcasting tomorrow night, is this: But let’s continue. As one blogger writes: We spent all that time protesting all over the country and in Vieques itself to force the Navy to stop using it as target practice for […]

Race didn’t play into the Zimmerman verdict? Not at all? Race and perceptions of it didn’t even cross the jurors’ mind? Right, this was never about race. Listen to Juror B37 last night on CNN. Memo: Spanish people are from Spain. There is a general rule that anyone who refers to U.S. Latinos as Spanish […]