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“I got so much trouble on my mind, refuse to lose.” — Chuck D There is not much more to add about why the now infamous “More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White” piece by The New York Times’ Nate Cohn was so problematic. Not only for what the post proclaimed, but also the fact that, according to […]

Now, you can read this or this if you really want to dive into why this whole Latino/Hispanic Census White silliness is so complicated, just watch this:

Yesterday, The New York Times’ “Upshot” blog announced the following to the world: “More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White.” The piece, written by Nate Cohn, included the animated image of a figure shifting from silver grey to ivory white and this lede paragraph: “Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. […]

UPDATE, 8:15pmET, May 22, 2014: I had an email exchange with one of the study’s co-authors today, and she wrote me that Cohn’s inferences about the data were his and not her research group’s conclusions. She also wrote that the study was still not public, nor was it finalized. Read more here. In the ongoing […]

This afternoon, Boston’s Spanish-language El Planeta newspaper tweeted the following to us: @latinorebels Boston Herald insists on using backward yellow journalism to cover immigration #WTF http://t.co/ooVTUATv3S … … — El Planeta (@elplanetaboston) May 21, 2014 The link lead to an editorial written in Spanish, where El Planeta lambasted today’s front page of The Boston Herald: […]

And the cultural appropriation hits keep on coming. Today, we present the Zapatista Burrito Bar from the city of Newcastle in clueless old England. We guess the locals love it, since a second location is already being built. According to its Twitter profile, it likes to say “HOLA, GRINGOS” and encourages patrons to “GRAB A […]

The following video is raw, but speaks for itself. It has gone viral, having been deleted from Facebook, but eventually showing up on YouTube. It happened on May 20 in Salinas, California. It shows two police officers chasing what appears to be an unarmed man. Eventually the police officer fire shots at the man, killing […]

We don’t need to be on a cup. That’s not the point. The point is actually a box. A school district in Arizona can box up and physically remove from classrooms seven books in a Mexican-American studies program, and then place the rest on a watch list of literature not to be taught. The point is the […]

NUEVA YORK, NY – The Memorial Day weekend will be transformed into an art and culture celebration in Manhattan’s Lower East, where the Loisaida Festival will bring together theater companies, poets and musicians, in a celebration of the performance fusions that evolved at iconic venues such as the New Rican Village, in the 1970s and […]

It appears that Slate’s new obsession with maps is doing anything and everything to avoid talking about the obvious. Last week it was all about a viral language post which didn’t even stop to acknowledge how mainstream Spanish has become. This week Slate and Ben Bratt are trying to replicate viral love by focusing on […]

As a regular watcher of Latin America, come Monday morning I usually expect to read about the terrible things that almost inevitably occur every weekend. In a region so vast and unstable, there’s bound to be a riot, a corruption scandal, a police crackdown, the shooting of innocent bystanders, or at least an earthquake or mudslide, […]

At first, we cringed, but then we kind of knew why we actually chuckled at this video. Simple: Norberto Briceño giving the viewers some context. Watch. BTW, this video has already gotten close to 250,000 views. Crazy.

On April 29, the legendary Pepe Aguilar performed with the USC Marching Band during the school’s Latino Alumni Event. As you can imagine, the performance was all over YouTube. Here is just five videos from that night.

Want to see what wealth inequality looks like? All you need to do is look at this photograph from Mexico. This photo is part of a campaign published here by Publicis, a Mexican ad agency. The photos refer to a site currently under construction.

Maybe just maybe some networks are starting to listen. This week, ABC announced that it would be picking up “Cristela,” starring the very talented Cristela Alonzo. Despite some silly headlines by the Hollywood press (“Cristela Alonzo Brings Mexican-American Humor And A Laugh Track To ABC’s Lineup”), let’s just say this: there is now a TV […]

In 2006, my parents, my grandmother, and I left Rio Verde for Jataí, Goiás to watch the World Cup Germany final between Italy and France at my great-uncle’s place. I happened to be in Brazil in 1994 and 2002 when Brazil won it all, so I had an idea of the parties for days that […]

UPDATE, May 17, 2014: The bill passed. Reports from Santo Domingo and the Dominican-American community are confirming that the Dominican Republican is ready to move beyond last year’s controversial constitutional tribunal ruling about who is a Dominican citizen. Here is what Dominican Today reported: The bill submitted to Congress by the Executive Branch Thursday will […]

Yesterday our news feeds were burning up with a piece published by Slate about the many languages spoken in U.S. households. The article, written by Ben Blatt, went viral because it visually confirmed that yes, the U.S. is really a multilingual society. However, it is Blatt’s first map that really floored us, and even though […]

Tomorrow May 15, LatinoRebels.com stands with other organizations —including the ACLU, EFF and reddit— in a day of action urging President Obama and FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to reject any rules that would harm the open Internet. A letter sent to the President and the FCC states the following: “Instead of restoring this important principle […]

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“Around the world today, men and women are still imprisoned for their political beliefs.”—President Barack Obama “But one prisoner remains, now a vivid reminder of the ongoing inequality that colonialism and empire building inevitably bring forth. After more than 30 years, Oscar López Rivera is imprisoned for the ‘crime’ of seditious conspiracy: conspiracy to free […]