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Having spent the last 19 years between Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties in Maryland, there has been a noticeable and rapid demographic shift. Prince George’s County is famous for being the location of “Black Flight,” where more affluent African Americans ran away from the corner stores of the District to the cul-de-sacs, golf courses and […]

Editor’s Note: Last week, Ashley Harris sent us an interesting infographic, so we asked her to share more context about it. This is the post she sent to us over the weekend. This is not a sponsored post, nor are we endorsing the company Ashley works for. We are just geeky bilingual editors who love […]

The following video was posted yesterday by the fabulous @Blabbeando. It shows Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic from 2000–2004, talking at an event in New Jersey this month. As @Blabbeando writes: Standing before a campaign flag that promises “equality,” Mejía doesn’t mention same-sex marriage but jokes that his campaign handlers wanted him to […]

Here’s the latest Rebel Report. All about Rafael Edward Cruz.

This week 80 mothers detained with their children in Karnes County, Texas, began a Holy Week hunger and work strike to demand their immediate release. In a letter smuggled out of the facility they write: “[D]uring this [time], no mother will work in the detention center, nor will we send our children to school, not […]

Bad translation alert! Sometimes you have to know about context, usage and all that other fun stuff so as to avoid the awkward laughs and snickers. This week’s FDA Spanish translation email about Easter egg safety is one of those moments. Here’s the problem with what the agency released in Spanish: by just using the […]

I know I’m still a young man, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen or heard of a debate moderator personally attacking a candidate. If Phil Ponce’s questions were to come from anyone, you’d think they would be Mayor Rahm Emanuel or one of his supporters—and it still would’ve crossed the line. It was arguably […]

Yesterday, as major news outlets reported that New Jersey senator Bob Menendez (D) was being indicted for federal corruption charges, the Department of Justice also publicly shared the 68-page indictment: Menendez and Melgen Indictment The Department of Justice also shared a press release, part of which stated the following: Robert Menendez, a U.S. Senator, and […]

After facing intense critcism for a series of questions he made towards Chicago mayoral candidate Chuy García Tuesday night during a “Chicago Tonight” candidates debate, WTTW Phil Ponce admitted to columnist John Kass of The Chicago Tribune the he messed up. Here is the lengthy quote Kass published in his column today from a phone […]

On October 31, 1950, a barber looked out the window and saw 40 policemen and National Guard soldiers surrounding his barbershop. “Ay coño,” said the barber, and started to prepare himself. He dimmed the lights in his shop. He pulled some weapons from a hidden stash, and distributed them around the shop. He prayed to a […]

UPDATE, April 2, 8:30am ET: Ponce told The Chicago Tribune’s John Kass that he messed up big time. In case you missed this last night from Chicago, here is what WTTW’s Phil Ponce asked Chicago mayoral candidate Chuy García during a “Chicago Tonight” debate. Ponce’s questions even got Mayor Rahm Emanuel to step in and […]

Even our favorite puppets are thinking of Selena today:

I never met my grandfather Adolfo. All I knew about him is that he was from Michoacán, he was a bracero and that he died fairly young. As I grew up, I started to piece together a picture from the bits of information I got here and there. I know he died when my mom […]

My own Selena story started long before she became a legend.

César Chávez, the biopic of the Chicano labor leader and civil rights activist directed by Mexican director/actor Diego Luna, hit theaters nationwide last year to a mixed reception of acclaim and criticism. While some critics pointed out the historical inaccuracies that exist throughout the film, most focused on Luna’s near-omission of Filipino farmworkers, and the peripheral […]

Editor’s Note: Earlier this year, we received from following email. We have decided to share it with all of you. Dear Editor: I’m just a Mom that got up this morning and after breakfast (Mexican with eggs and beans and coffee) we settled in the living room and my husband watched the news like every […]

Last week, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, based in Denver, Colorado, took the extraordinary step of initiating disciplinary actions against an immigration lawyer for… being a terrible immigration lawyer. In the legal world, what the panel did is called a benchslap. Writing for the court —which also […]

Central America is in trouble. Correction: Central America has been in trouble. The region—south of Mexico, north of Colombia—has withstood blood-thirsty conquistadores bearing rifles and disease, rapacious business interests which ruled over banana republics, and the occasional invasion, civil war or golpe. In the past few years alone, at least 50,000 people were killed in the […]

Originally published at Drug Policy Alliance. As I walked to the Mexican Consulate on a blustery winter day in New York City last week to join a protest calling for justice for the 43 missing university students of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, I began to think of warmer days that did not require layers and gloves. For […]

Editor’s Note: You can read Part I here. The following diagram provides a map of the Ponce Massacre tragedy. With tommy gunners at the top of the photo, 15 armed cops at the bottom and nowhere to turn for safety, hundreds of unarmed Puerto Ricans were trapped in an intentional crossfire —a classic killing zone— […]

Here is another new #RebelReport. Hit it, R.J.