Latino Rebels

YouTube impersonator Kenji Lee is at again, this time as “El Donald” Trump in Tijuana

Just when you thought the story of Jorge Ramos getting kicked out of a Trump press conference was terrible enough

Univision’s Jorge Ramos squared off with GOP candidate Donald Trump in Iowa

The School for Authentic Journalism is offering “20 scholarships to writers, reporters, communicators, bloggers, artists, cineastes, photographers, editors, radio conductors, technicians, community organizers and webmasters who communicate about social movements.” Greg Berger, the Mexico-based journalist and filmmaker who goes by the name “Gringoyo“, is an alumnus of the school (Class of 2004) and writes about his […]

Yesterday a small Puerto Rican news site published a story in which Donald Trump is reported to have told a group of potential donors that, if elected president, he would revoke the U.S. citizenship of anyone born in Puerto Rico. Donald Trump eliminara la ciudadanía americana a los puertorriqueños de ser presidente – http://t.co/0IQTgjv9u1 pic.twitter.com/abJQTVDGEZ — […]

Someone needs to give Al Sharpton a history book ASAP: During his reproach of the immigration plan released by billionaire and GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, the MSNBC host added Puerto Ricans to the list of immigrant communities that would be affected by Trump’s plan. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I went to school not […]

With the GOP presidential frontrunner spreading hate and fear, the violence is inevitable. Donald Trump inspired the assault of a homeless Hispanic man yesterday in Dorchester Mass. http://t.co/smoMjxsqMW pic.twitter.com/WNTsWIYms5 — The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) August 20, 2015 From the Boston Globe: Police said two brothers from South Boston ambushed the 58-year-old as he slept outside of […]

Dena Takruri, the host and producer at AJ+, dispels a few of the biggest myths concerning immigration: Donald Trump framed the debate with these now-infamous words: ‘They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.’ But guess what: The facts don’t agree. No studies out there actually link violent crime to immigrants. One study even found […]

This morning Ezra Klein, explainer-in-chief at the conspicuously lacking in diversity Vox, tweeted his site’s latest attempt to draw in Latino readers: The difference between "Latino" and "Hispanic," in one comic: http://t.co/qyoLh8UzaC — Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) August 19, 2015 One thing to note: Klein is of Brazilian descent (he also shouted the piece out on his […]

Two years before Donald Trump thought migrants from Latin America were “bringing crime” and “rapists,” he had become an advocate for fair and comprehensive immigration reform. Back in 2013, NBC News reported a meeting between the billionaire GOP frontrunner and “youth immigrant leaders Jose Machado, Diego Sanchez and nationally renowned Dreamer Gaby Pacheco of The Bridge Project at […]

So earlier today we told you about the fantastic music show produced by NPR’s Latino USA. Here’s another segment from the show that we are listening to: eight glorious minutes with Los Crudos. Los Crudos, for those who have no idea, were a hardcore band out of Chicago during the 1990s.

Our friends at NPR’s Latino USA just dropped another podcast. It is called “Off Beat,” a show about “music that goes against the grain.” One of the show’s segments, “Hardpop: Dancing Through the Drug War,” introduces us to Hardpop, a legendary electronic music dance club located in the heart of Ciudad Juárez. Featured Photo of Dj T […]

Comedic YouTuber sensation eGO the Cholo hooks up with fellow Californian Jay Taj to talk about Straight Outta Compton and life on the West Coast: I didn’t even think [being from the Compton area] was that big a deal. When I started getting older and people started talking to me like, ‘Wait, you’re, like, from Compton?’ […]

A new partnership between CultureStrike, Mariposas Sin Fronteras and End Family Detention has resulted in the creation of the Visions From the Inside project, where 15 artists interpret letters written by detained migrants at Karnes Detention Center. As the project’s Tumblr site says: By visually illustrating these letters, we aim to bring awareness and a better sense of the realities that […]

Last night on Latino Rebels Radio, we spoke with Sen. Ramón Luis Nieves, a member of Puerto Rico’s Popular Democratic Party (PPD) who represents San Juan, Guaynabo and Aguas Buenas. The PPD and its leader, Gov. Alejandro García, is currently the party leading the island’s government during an economic crisis getting more national attention from […]

Today, during a cross-border running race that brought runners through El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who ran the race, decided to show off his new baseball cap—a clear response to Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hat. The Texas Democrat’s social media account made sure that people saw his hat: . […]

Via VICE News and the New York Review of Books: In this episode, Alma Guillermoprieto discusses her article “Mexico: The Murder of the Young,” in which she follows the story of 43 students from a teacher’s college in the Mexican state of Guerrero who disappeared last year at the hands of corrupt police and a […]

This week, our friends at Latino USA produced an entire podcast about the outdoors, but it is this one segment from the show that is making us smile. It is called “Frida’s Garden.” You had us at Frida, Maria Hinojosa. Here is the piece: Photo by Gabriela Sierra Alonso

Last night, a few of us were a bit perplexed by a tweet in Spanish sent out by Hillary Clinton’s campaign: Hemos tenido muchos abuelos en @lacasablanca, pero nunca hemos tenido una abuela. —Hillary en @scdp: http://t.co/wht093L78R — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 6, 2015 “We’ve had a lot of grandfathers in the White House, but […]

Just play the tape from earlier tonight. We must insist on assimilation. Immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here come here legally. Learn English, adopt our values, roll up your sleeves and get to work. I’m tired of the hyphenated Americans and the division. You so […]

UPDATE: Latino Rebels was the first outlet to speak to Carlos Steven. Here is the conversation we had with him this past Sunday. This video, posted yesterday on Facebook by Carlos Steven Vasquez, had already gotten over 1.4 million views and 54,000 shares before we came cross it through our social feed. This is what […]