Media

After writing a column for NBC Latino about the saturation of Latino brands, our founder @julito77 received the following letter from PETA Latino’s Renée Saldaña. She agreed to have her letter published online. Dear Julio, We caught your editorial about PETA Latino on NBC Latino’s website, as well as Latino Rebels‘ post on the same subject, and while we appreciate your discussing the news of PETA Latino’s launch, we […]

We received the following open letter from writer/comedian Cesar Zamora about the recent episode of “The Real Housewives of Orange County,” where Tamra Barney says that a trip to a Mexican restaurant brought out the “inner beaner” of Eddie Judge, her Latino fianceé. Here is what Cesar sent to Bravo, the network that broadcasts the show: I […]

We cannot believe that we are writing about The Real Housewives of Orange County, but here we are, so we might as well jump in. Apparently the show is getting some flak for a segment of last night’s episode when OC Tamra Barney (whoever she is) noted that Eddie Judge, her Latino fiancée, had his “inner beaner […]

Tonight on Twitter from 9pm–10:30pm EST, Latino Rebels will be co-hosting a event with @AfroLatinosTV and @miss_rizos to discuss Afrolatino identity. You can RSVP to the event here. As part of an indiegogo campaign to fund “Afrolatinos: The Untaught Story UN LLAMADO!”, the Twitter event can be followed using the #UnLlamado hashtag. The campaign also […]

It’s a start. While most of the America will be donning silly sombreros, drinking cheap tequila and thinking that Cinco de Mayo is just another “Mexican St. Patrick’s Day,” Lionsgate and Televisa will be releasing a new film called “Cinco de Mayo, La Batalla,” this May 3 in Los Angeles and Orange County. Finally, someone […]

Where do we start? Ok, let’s start here. Yes, there is a PETA Latino, and we don’t know why. Someone in PETA has actually spent money on creating a new “Latino” page for animal rights? Why, because the actually mainstream PETA page is not good enough or gets the job done? PETA really thinks that […]

Yup, even Groupon’s computer filters think Cuban food is the same as Mexican food. The cultural gaffe find was discovered and tweeted out by @lpolinsky earlier today Huge @groupon screwup (unless Mexico’s invaded Cuba). But maybe I shouldn’t talk: all deal sites look the same to me. twitter.com/lpolinsky/stat… — lpolinsky (@lpolinsky) April 26, 2013 Dear […]

The National Hispanic Media Coalition published the following release today: Pasadena, CA – The New York Times announced an update to its policies on how it uses the phrase “illegal immigrant” in its coverage. The newspaper will continue to allow the phrase, but it encourages reporters and editors to “consider alternatives when appropriate to explain the […]

You have got to be kidding us. The following bilingual ad by TIDE, which launched last fall and which recently aired CNN, has now become a online nativist symbol of all that is “wrong” about the United States. Yes, a bilingual ad about laundry detergent. This is sad, people. Here is the commercial. Run away, […]

UPDATE: By April 20, 2013, 10:58 pm EST, Twitter had suspended the account. Earlier today the official Twitter profile of “60 Minutes” was hacked. Soon after, the “60 Minutes” profile tweeted the following: PLEASE NOTE:Our Twitter account was compromised earlier today. We are working with Twitter to resolve. — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 20, 2013 […]

I’m positive that you all have in one way or another been exposed to the same-sex marriage debate that is happening right now. Many people have changed their social media avatars in support of marriage equality, while others march and protest on the streets. It is such a big topic that is has recently made […]

EXCLUSIVE: Download findings here. It is a study that CNN declined to broadcast to the public: a 2012 Hill+Knowlton (H+K) Strategies online survey for the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC), which concluded that a vast majority of non-Latino Americans have highly skewed and racist perceptions of U.S. Latinos. The numbers are startling. For example, one-third think that more than half of […]

Originally published at Of América. Tuesday’s stunning announcement by the Associated Press that is was dropping the racist term “Illegal immigrant” from its AP Stylebook, the Bible of journalistic usage, marks a historic juncture. The history of the decline and fall of the term “illegal immigrant” and it’s derivatives (“Illegals”, “illegal alien” and the like) is one that […]

Of all the stories and accounts that I have read the last few weeks about the U.S. tour of Cuban dissident blogger and Twitter rockstar Yoani Sánchez, this tidbit from The Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR) says it all for me: Cubans must pay as much as $6 to $12 per hour to access the […]

After getting slammed by fellow Republicans, Alaska congressman Don Young issued another statement this afternoon about “wetback” comments he gave in a local radio interview. Here is what Young said in a statement: I apologize for the insensitive term I used during an interview in Ketchikan, Alaska. There was no malice in my heart or […]

The response to Alaska Rep. Don Young’s “wetback” comments broadcast on KRBD yesterday has already reached the national spotlight, after Speaker John Boehner slammed his Republican colleague for “offensive” remarks “beneath the dignity of the office [Young] holds.” We emailed KRBD earlier today to ask them why they broadcast Young’s comments without any follow-up questions […]

On the morning of March 27, 2013, I awoke to the news that four U.S. senators were in my hometown of Nogales, AZ, to speak about immigration teform: Republican Arizona senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, and Democratic senators Michael Bennet (Colorado) and Chuck Schumer (New York). My initial reaction was that of enthusiasm and […]

Last night Junot Díaz appeared on “The Colbert Report” talking literature, immigration, and Freedom University, a college for undocumented student. Like he tells Colbert, “Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That’s just the truth of it.” And then what about the “Superman Question?” You do know that Superman is […]

Very few new season premieres get us excited. EastWillyB is one of them. It is one of our favorite shows out there, and a new season is here. We are pumped. Here is episode 1. Enjoy. And here is episode 2.

The Associated Press is trying get more “diverse” when it comes to digging deeper into U.S. Latino issues, and so far it is failing miserably. We gave them a pass when it reported the following story, “Rise of Latino population blurs US racial lines”, and the reporters opened the story with the following lede, “Welcome to the […]

Texas SB 1128 is a bill introduced by Houston state senator Dan Patrick. On the surface the bill appears tame enough, “relating to curriculum requirements in American and Texas history” for the state’s public higher education institutions. But if you ask Librotraficante (and Rebelde) Tony Diaz and many others who protested in front of the […]