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Another episode of “Américans with Roberto Lovato” is out. This week Roberto traveled to Escondido, California, where Central American child refugees have arrived, sparking heated debate and controversy. Local activists Ricardo Favela and Olga Diaz explain the mixture of hate with hope. Earlier this week, “Américans” explored 20 years since Prop 187, and last week, […]

Last night, a 2011 musical about Roberto Clemente is currently playing at Chicago’s NightBlue Performing Arts Company: The Chicago Sun-Times profiled lead actor Modesto Lacén and playwright Luis Caballero: “I think Modesto is one of the best actors of his generation,” Caballero says. “To watch Modesto is to watch Clemente.” Lacén knew right from the […]

As you watch the following video, all you need to know is this about the person talking in the video: Tamara Scott is the National Committeewoman for the Republican National Convention. This is what Scott said on her radio show: When we see these kids, you and I think young kids, we think maybe 12-year-olds, […]

It has not been a good week for editors at Big Journo. First, The New York Times went through some online pain for a “Picking Crops” headline about Latino farmers. Now, The Washington Post had to issue an apology (actually, a non-apology) for a “We’ll need more fajitas” subhead about a story on HUD Secretary […]

Andrew Thomas, the Arizona Republican candidate for governor who produced one of the most racist political ads we have ever seen, declining an August 20 candidate forum organized by the conservative LIBRE Initiative group and Univision, which broadcast the forum and translated it to Spanish. Apparently Thomas had issues with the whole concept of the forum. Here […]

In the lead up to this year’s FIFA World Cup, the general consensus was that Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff needed to pull off a successful tournament in order to solidify her chances of winning re-election this fall. At one time enjoying huge voter support, Rousseff has seen her popularity take a few blows since protests erupted during the 2013 […]

The body falls, A tall boy falls, Tumbles to the ground. The sound of Pop, pop, pop, Pop, pop, pop, Tops the air. Hits a cloud, Bounces around. His lungs slowly Come to a halt there. He has no escape. Scraping the asphalt Beneath his skin, He’s drenched. It’s 12:01 pm, His heart pumps Slower […]

This video was posted tonight by @juanitozarate. Some of the language is raw, but Juan’s honesty is real. A must watch. So, what did you do during Ferguson? Peace.

It seems that we have never really overcome. Ferguson. When I watch the images and the blaring graphics coming out of my television, the soundtrack that plays in the back of my skull like napalm is Buffalo Springfield’s “For What It’s Worth”: There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. There’s a man […]

History has a way of making you feel like things happened a long long time ago. Like way before your parents. Like forever ago, not even close to now. Now is awesome, it’s immediate. “History” was back “then”—you learn about it in school because you are required to or drawn to it. As a young […]

A story published today by Think Progress’ Alice Ollstein entitled, “How Democrats Could Lose The Latino Vote” included a comment from Florida Rep. Joe Garcia (D) about how some immigrant rights groups continue to bring up the fact that President Obama’s immigration record and how lack of action on immigration has become problematic for many […]

This week’s “Américans,” a series on TeleSUR English which Latino Rebels is helping to promote, looks at the roots of the country’s immigration debate and the role California’s Proposition 187 has played. For previous “Américans” episodes hosted by Roberto Lovato, click here.

A recent Twitter exchange between Washington Post reporter Wesley Lowery (in between his Ferguson coverage) and Politico’s Dylan Byers and Kenneth P. Vogel about the political site’s lack of black reporters led to a rather detailed report by All Digitocracy’s Tracie Powell, confirming (not surprisingly) that Politico’s newsroom is not that diverse at all. “Politico veterans […]

As expected, John Oliver has weighed in on Ferguson. And we are glad he did.

Last week, LA’s KTLA reported about the August 2 beating death of 37-year-old Omar Abrego at the hands of Los Angeles Police officers. There is a protest scheduled for later today in LA for both Abrego and Ezell Ford, who was shot by LAPD officers. March today for #EzellFord #OmarAbrego #MikeBrown 5:30pm 65th and broadway […]

The day after intense social media reaction to a headline touting the following, “Latinos Move Up, From Picking Crops to Running the Farm,” the digital editors at The New York Times revised the headline from this: To this, “More Latinos on Farms Move From Fields to Office:” The digital article states the following at the […]

UPDATE, August 18, 2014: The Times changed the headline on its digital site. We have been saying this year that the lack of diverse editors at The New York Times is really showing and becoming more and more common. While the country’s “paper of record” has some solid Latin@ reporters on staff, when it comes […]

Earlier this afternoon on New York’s WBAI (audio at the end of this post), Hugo Balta, former President of the National Hispanic Association of Journalists (NAHJ), and Carlie Ericksen, one of NAHJ’s original founding members, discussed the controversy from last weekend’s NAHJ convention in San Antonio, where Ericksen said an NAHJ award given to Fox […]

Editor’s Note: Originally published in AlterNet.org, the authors of the piece approached us as well and have given us permission to reprint. The following essay is our latest installment of opinion pieces regarding U.S. policy in Central America. “[I]n the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the […]

In an wide-ranging (and unauthorized) interview with The Center for Investigative Reporting, the former head of US. Customs and Border Protection’s internal affairs division went on record to publicly criticize the “institutional narcissism” of an agency that is corrupt and sees itself as “a paramilitary border security force.” According to the CIR interview, James F. […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Published this week in LatamThought (via Aleszu Bajak), Ivan also approached us to cross-publish his piece. He gave us permission to share his article on our site. Ivan posted it originally on his own page. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California to a Mexican father and a Salvadoran mother. Both came to […]