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Looks like Alaska’s Joe Miller, an actual Republican candidate for the US Senate, has gone all-out in the racism department during his primary campaign. Here is what one Alaskan tweeted out earlier today: Wow. #Alaska politics are crazy on tap. #immigration #gunfail pic.twitter.com/gXw2MB5u6T — Shannyn Moore (@shannynmoore) August 13, 2014 We really thought it was […]

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This past Saturday in San Antonio, Mekahlo Medina, the new president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), shared his term with a challenge. Here is what he said: In a separate email to NAHJ members (Latino Rebels is a member), Medina wrote this: The next two years will be all about growth. Together, […]

This week, Fusion’s Jorge Rivas published a comprehensive video series exploring the some of the reasons regarding the rise of unaccompanied minors from Central America in the United States. Major props to Rivas and the Fusion digital team for creating these videos. It is the type of news content that adds intelligence to this very […]

If you can get pass all the shameless plugs Kiss legend Gene Simmons makes below, just watch this following segment from Monday’s “Huff Post Live.” What we DIDN’T hear from Simmons? “I got mine, so tough shit.” The irony of it all? New immigrants, specifically from Latin America (yeah, Gene, we know what you were […]

In perhaps one of the most detailed studies about the Puerto Rican population in both the mainland United States and the island of Puerto Rico, researchers at Pew concluded that “Puerto Ricans have left the financially troubled island for the U.S. mainland this decade in their largest numbers since the Great Migration after World War […]

Just when we thought we would stop bringing up the fact that The New York Times’ Upshot blog has a serious ‘Latino problem’ when it comes to presenting stories about U.S. Latinos, along comes this, which our founder @julito77 tweeted this afternoon: Actual photo used by @UpshotNYT in piece called "It's Not Too Late for […]

The following video from Inocente Izucar made us smile. Post by Inocente!!! (H/T Remezcla) And while you are it, support Inocente’s art.

The folks at “Becoming Ricardo” let us know about a new episode. Here is “And There Was Steven.” As the team says: “Becoming Ricardo” is a web series that gives Latino actors the opportunity to showcase their talent in a way we don’t typically see on TV/film these days – with the release of this […]

Latino Rebels has agreed to collaborate with Roberto’s show team. We think this series is an important one to share. Our job is to help Roberto raise awareness about this new series. “Américans with Roberto Lovato,” a new web series on TeleSur English, spent this week sharing more about the Maya community in this country. […]

Yesterday in San Antonio during a luncheon on media and diversity at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) conference, MSNBC president Phil Griffin addressed the now infamous “Cinco de Mayo” fail. Here is what Richard Prince of the Maynard Institute reported: A contrite Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, apologized again Friday for a May Cinco […]

This happened Friday in McAllen, Texas. Looks like Border Convoy continues to run into problems. In this video, Pete Santilli says Rio Grande Valley residents “work for thr drug cartels.” “McAllen is not Murrieta.”

In a recording of a phone conversation sent this morning to Latino Rebels, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) supervisor from the Artesia, New Mexico migrant detention facility said that many migrants from Central America, including babies as young as 15 months old, are bringing diseases to the country. The supervisor, who identified himself […]

After a local Texas sheriff called Border Convoy’s claims of an August 5 hotel evacuation from drug cartel members “all false,” a media spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety also confirmed via email that no Texas state troopers were involved in any August 5 incident. “DPS troopers were not involved in this incident,” […]

Our friends at Pocho.com let us know today that the talented Hey Vato puppets have a new episode. Here it is:

Looks like the much-hyped Border Convoy trip into Texas has become an absolute disaster for the “Stop the Invasion” organizers. Yesterday, the group was in San Antonio, and according to local press, only six people showed up. A half-dozen people from the San Antonio area gathered to hear radio host Pete Santilli talk about illegal immigration […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: José Ángel N. wrote to Latino Rebels and gave us permission to publish this letter. It has also appeared here and here. You can visit José Ángel at his blog. July 25, 2014 Dear President Obama, I know you will probably never read this letter. But, as a good Mexican, I’ve been taught to […]

This doesn’t need much explanation. Just sit back and smile. Post by 94.1 FM Dallas.

Remember earlier this year when Nate Cohn of The New York Times let the world know that a significant number of U.S. Latinos were becoming more “white” by misrepresenting a study that had yet to be finalized? This week that study was finally published. Here it is: America's Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes […]

Estela de Carlotto, the leader of Argentina’s human rights organization “Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo,” has finally found her missing grandson after more than 35 years of searching. Her daughter Laura disappeared during the last dictatorship and gave birth to a son, Guido Carlotto, in a military hospital on June 26, 1978. Hoy Estela estará […]

On Monday Iowa Rep. Steve King was caught off guard when DREAMer activists Erika Andiola and Cesar Vargas confronted him about his opposition to President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which has allowed Andiola and hundreds of thousands of others to avoid deportation, get a driver’s license and find work. The seven-minute video […]