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A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak a the Commonwealth Compact’s diversity breakfast at UMASS Boston. One of the questions I addressed was about a Boston Globe op-ed piece I wrote saying that Massachusetts Republican candidate for Senate Gabriel Gómez was being ignored by the national GOP even though he was an […]

UPDATE: Carlos Velasquez is of Colombian and Puerto Rico descent. Last Friday night on CNN Latino, Madelyn Lugo, Chairperson of the non-profit National Puerto Rican Day Parade, Inc. (NPRDP), gave a nine-minute interview defending her organization surrounding the recent developments of an official Coors Light parade beer can that has generated controversy in the Puerto […]

This weekend award-winning author Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez and her production company launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a movie version of the megahit best-selling series “The Dirty Girls Social Club.” As the project’s page says: Hollywood, ever vigilant for opportunities to get rich, noticed that astronomical sales, and Alisa was wooed into several development deals, one […]

This weekend the Bakersfield Californian published “a timeline of events surrounding the death of 33-year-old David Sal Silva on May 8.”  You can access the entire timeline here. Based on the timeline, we do know that at 10:20 pm on May 7, “Silva arrives at KMC’s emergency department and requests directions to the nearby Mary K. […]

Last night on CNN Latino’s Panorama news shows with host Fernando Del Rincón, Madelyn Lugo, chairperson of the non-profit National Puerto Rican Day Parade (NPRDP) organization, defended NPPRD’s actions in response to an official Coors Light parade beer can that depicted images of the Puerto Rican flag and the parade’s official logo. On May 23, […]

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez is the best-selling author of the “The Dirty Girls Social Club” book series. This week Valdes-Rodriguez and her production team created a parody video highlighting her experiences and frustrations in their attempts to get the series adapted into a movie. The video, based on actual meetings Valdes-Rodriguez has had over the years with […]

Even after MillerCoors decided to stop production of an official National Puerto Rican Day Parade beer can that has gained national attention through social media, community activists and local New York City politicians of Puerto Rican descent continue to call for the resignation of the the parade organization’s chairperson and its current board of directors. […]

This morning on Twitter, Latino Rebels shared part one of “David Sal Silva: An American Tragedy,” a four-part series by Bakersfield journalist/writers Nick Belardes, As we normally do when we want to amplify important stories via Twitter, we cc’d several Twitter profiles, including those of @MALDEF, @NCLR, and @democracynow. Here is just one example of […]

Latino Rebels will be running a series of pieces by local Bakersfield journalist/writer Nick Belardes about the in-custody death of David Sal Silva. This is the series’ first post. Part One: Culture of Drugs BAKERSFIELD, CA – There’s a culture of drugs in the cities where we live in America. Amid the urban streets of […]

Before writing this story, we stopped for a minute to check that it was April 1, but it is not, it is May 29, and according to Puerto Rico’s El Vocero, there is a suggestion from Héctor Travieso that a new “more improved” “La Comay” show will return to the airwaves with , after the […]

Phyllis Schlafly of the Eagle Forum is one clueless Republican. Today, Schlafly basically shared more ignorance about U.S. Latinos in a minute than most people will share in a lifetime. We have no words. Just listen to what she had to say when asked about whether the Republican Party should do a better job in […]

In response to a forceful statement that the National Puerto Rican Day Parade (NPRDP) gave to NBC Latino saying that community leaders should “top misguidedly telling the public that the Puerto Rican flag has been posted on beer cans,” Boricuas for a Positive Image, a grassroots New York City organization that has called for both […]

After a campaign by Boricuas for a Positive Image calling for MilerCoors and the Puerto Rican Day Parade to stop the distribution and production of an official parade Coors Light beer can displaying the colors and images of the Puerto Rican flag went viral via social media, both MillerCoors and the Puerto Rican Day Parade […]

Earlier this evening a friend of mine sent me the following mission statement from MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund): “Founded in 1968, MALDEF is the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization. Often described as the ‘law firm of the Latino community,’ MALDEF promotes social change through advocacy, communications, community education, and […]

In case you missed it, HuffPost Live did a segment last week to discuss the May 15 statehood bill Puerto Rico’s Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi submitted to Congress. The segment was hosted by @AliciaMelendez, and the segment’s guests were: Angel Toledo-Lopez @atoledolopez (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Professor of Political Science at the Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez Kenneth McClintock @PRKDMc (San […]

In an interview with The New York Post, “Devious Maids” creator Marc Cherry addressed some of his show’s most vocal critics, specifically a HuffPost piece by Cosmo for Latinas Editor-In-Chief Michelle Herrera Mulligan, who called the show “an insulting disgrace” that “does a tremendous disservice to the 20 million-plus Latina female population living in the […]

With only two days left before filing a final petition to force a special election, supporters of a campaign to recall Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio entered its final push to gather 90,000 remaining signatures. Supporters are hoping that last week’s federal court decision against Arpaio and his office stating that they racially profiled Latino […]

In a May 26 video report from RT America, attorney David Cohn said that the in-custody death of David Sal Silva was just another example of troubling police misconduct in Kern County, California. “For too long the Kern County Sheriff’s Department strikes first and asks questions after the fact,” Cohn said in the report, which […]

Yesterday we published the news of a campaign organized by Boricuas for a Positive Image calling for MillerCoors to stop the distribution and production of a limited edition Coors Light product classified as the official beer of the Puerto Rican Day Parade. The can displays the parade organization’s logo and includes the colors of the […]

Now, if anyone asks us, “Where are you all from? Like really from,” we will just share the following video. Makes us want us to do our own version. This is beyond good. Thank you, David Neptune and Ken Tanaka. The video was part of YouTube Comedy Week. Here is what the video’s creators had […]

Last week Boricuas for a Positive Image, a grassroots New York City community group formed after ABC’s “Work It” fiasco, has formally asked for MillerCoors to stop distribution of special Coors Light beer cans donning the Puerto Rican flag. Marketed as the official bear of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, held this June in Manhattan, […]