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Just days after Univision decided to cut business ties with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for derogatory comments made against Mexicans and as the Latino digital space began to call for NBCUniversal (owner of Telemundo) to follow Univision’s lead, this morning NBCUniversal issued the following statement: At NBC, respect and dignity for all people are […]

UPDATE: NBCUniversal has terminated its business relationship with Donald Trump. It is the June 16 Donald Trump quote that has the Latino digital space speaking out in ways we have never seen before, including an online petition calling for NBC to end its ties with Trump (now at about 200K signatures and growing): When Mexico sends […]

Originally posted at the author’s personal blog page. Over the past year a number of people have asked me what the difference between Chicanx/Xicanx is so I thought I’d write up a short post explaining the difference. This is an excerpt from a paper I wrote on Marxist Xicanisma: The spelling of Xicana and Xicanisma […]

A few things you need to know. Phillip Arroyo, the young Puerto Rican law student who appears in the video below, is a new contributor to Latino Rebels. Similar to what I have been writing about for years, Phillip believes that the only way to solve Puerto Rico’s status issue (mired in decades of mediocre […]

The tears in that Spanish-speaking bible study Wednesday after Wednesday would be a part of the long process of healing. For two years, my 16-year-old soul opened up in these meetings. Most of the other participants were Latino immigrants who had just crisscrossed the continent or children of immigrants like myself still learning how to […]

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD— Cecilia Muñoz, the White House’s Director of Domestic Policy Council, was met with silence, jabs and jeers, and booed off the stage at the annual American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) conference yesterday. Several immigration attorneys and advocates who have been at the frontlines of the fight to end the detention of refugee mothers […]

Last night, VICE News went to Santo Domingo to capture the local reaction about the immigration crisis happening in the Dominican Republic. This is what Reuters reported: Dominican officials say anyone lacking identity documents or who has not registered for a so-called “regularization” program before the Wednesday night deadline could face deportation. The Dominican government […]

UPDATE, June 20, 2015: The Daily News apologized via an editorial. [View the story “Puerto Rican Day Parade Supporters Protest at NY Daily News” on Storify]

Word that a New York City tabloid had smeared the Puerto Rican community yet again with an offensive depiction of our annual parade came as no surprise though the immediate outrage and indignation from the parade’s board was, at the very least, comforting. In recent years, the Puerto Rican flag has gone from causing controversy […]

[View the story “Social Media Images and Videos from Dominican Republic Deportation Crisis” on Storify]

Looks like our friend and founder of UPLIFTT (United People for Latinos in Film TV and Theater) César Vargas keeps churning out more and more videos on some very important topics. The latest one is below. (You can catch other videos here.)   Tokenism: A Case of the TokenHola, Pueblo. Soy César Vargas. Founder of UPLIFTT […]

If ever there were a time for a comprehensive Latino and African American political coalition, it is in the 2016 presidential election. Issues that affect the nation’s two largest “minorities” have dominated recent news cycles and are sure to be introduced and addressed in coming debates, town halls, and stump speeches. Together, we are far […]

Today in New York as part of my duties as Digital Media Director for Futuro Media Group, I will be attending the Ravitch Fiscal Reporting Program’s journalism seminar about Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis. A portion of the agenda will include a Skype appearance by Alejandro García Padilla, Puerto Rico’s governor. As I was preparing for […]

NEW YORK, NY—Politicians, celebrities and organizations at the Puerto Rican Day Parade today endorsed a campaign aimed to reverse recent federal government cuts to Medicare Advantage benefits in Puerto Rico. Among the supporters who raised their voices at the annual New York City event were the Governor of Puerto Rico Alejandro García Padilla, NYC Council Speaker […]

La versión en inglés se encuentra aquí. Honduras nunca fue tan popular, de hecho para muchos no era más que un nombre en el mapa mundial y un pequeño país tercermundista. Sin embargo los niveles de violencia, las cifras de muertos, la proliferación de las maras y pandillas y el aumento del crimen organizado y […]

You can read the Spanish version here. Honduras has never been well-known, rather simply thought of as a small Third World country and not much more than a name on a world map. Yet the levels of violence, the death toll, a proliferation of gangs and gang activity, and an increase in organized crime and […]

Despite garnering over 50,000 signatures to an online petition asking that the Obama Administration not cut back on health care benefits to Puerto Ricans living on the island, this past Monday the Puerto Rican Healthcare Crisis Coalition (PRHCC) issued a strong statement, saying that June 8 decision by the government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid […]

Police-on-Police Racism Last year, a Black Fort Worth police officer discovered a noose on a snowman dressed as a policeman holding a banana on his desk. That launched a series of exposés on the institutional and blatant racism at the Forth Worth PD, which led to the city’s police chief resigning. Earlier this week, in McKinney, […]

This year, CASA, the largest immigrant rights organization in Maryland, celebrates its 30th anniversary. Since 1985, the organization has been a leader in empowering, supporting and advocating for immigrants’ rights. Through a multifaceted approach of building a powerful immigrant movement, providing direct social services to individuals from over 90 countries and shaping the political process in […]

I wanted to take a moment and share the following piece from Bernice Sosa of SofritoForYourSoul.com. You can follow more at #JuntosPorCano. Please sign the petition Our Mother is dying. Her veins are clogged with disease that have split, her heart rate is decreasing. She is deathly ill and contagious. Mamá can no longer nurture […]

Editor’s Note: After we published a bilingual essay from four authors about Nelson A. Denis’ visit to Puerto Rico to promote his new book, we invited Nelson to share his own impressions from his seven-day book tour. Here is what Nelson sent us. Last month I went to Puerto Rico to introduce my book War Against […]