Latino Rebels

Many online have some important questions for Google regarding their new Latino-focused initiative .Soy since it launched on October 16, and they’ve been asking them via various mediums. Google describes .Soy as a “domain name for Latino identity and expression on the web.” It also says that “.Soy is the place for online Latinos.” Which […]

What happened last Friday in Sacramento, where two Northern California sheriff’s officers were killed, was tragic. The suspect is Luis Enrique Monroy Bracamonte, “a Mexican who lived without papers in this country for more than a decade after he was deported in 1997 and again in 2001 because of drug- and weapon-related arrests,” as reported […]

After catching the first two segments, catch part three here.

Before you watch the video below of President Barack Obama telling an immigrant rights supporter that the person should be “protesting Republicans” at a rally for Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke, we will say this: the White House continues to be out of touch with U.S. Latino voters. It is disrespectful and incredibly stale. It […]

More bad news for the family of David Sal Silva occurred yesterday when the FBI issued the following statement, essentially ending the federal investigation into Silva’s in-custody death at the hands of the Kern County Sheriff’s Office in Bakersfield, California, on May 7, 2013. Federal Investigation into Death of David Silva Closed U.S. Attorney’s Office […]

Sephora University was created by the global cosmetics store to “transform each employee into a genuine Brand Ambassador and guide them through their careers.” Recently, an internal document obtained by Latino Rebels and branded by Sephora University was shared with Sephora employees. It shows a step-by-step makeup guide for employees to celebrate Día de los […]

This morning, NPR did a bit more digging about a new immigration detention facility being built in Dilley, Texas. The 7-minute report explores what is really behind the construction of what U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants to call a “residential center” for mostly women and children who arrive into the United States from […]

Our friends at the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) have a knack for cutting through the noise and getting to the issue. Last week, the NHFA wrote a letter to the respective heads of HBO and Starbucks about one very simple issue: Where are the Latino performers in the upcoming Concert for Valor […]

On October 12, LatinoRebels.com ran the story of Teodulo Sánchez and a video he recorded showing a Buckeye, Arizona police officer telling Sánchez that he would ” kill [him] right here” during a traffic stop. On October 13, Buzzfeed ran a story about the video and spoke to Sánchez. That same day, our founder and […]

A new short documentary called “Makeshift Americas” is trying to bring more awareness to the issue of forced labor in Latin America by focusing on research-based case studies in Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. The group behind the film, led by Ana Maria Defillo, has produced a short about the project, with the hopes of raising […]

The following video was posted today on Facebook. It shows unidentified DREAMers interrupting a rally for North Carolina senator Kay Hagan, a Democrat who is running for re-election. In the video, Hagan, whose immigration record has been the target of progressive organizations, tells the DREAMers the she is for immigration reform, unlike her Republican opponent […]

Tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts, before the screening of Underwater Dreams at MIT, @julito77 interviewed José Gómez, one of the first MIT students to publicly declare that he is undocumented. Here is the full interview: Earlier today Latino Rebels received the following release about the MIT students who announced their undocumented status tonight: Today, in conjunction […]

A few days ago we posted Part One of The Mike Brown Rebellion from Rebel Díaz’s “Ñ Don’t Stop” show on TeleSurEnglish. Here is Part Two:

This just in via a Twitter fan: A burrito chain in Colorado is called “Illegal Pete’s.” Residents want the name changed http://t.co/13oNKxvxLo @latinorebels — Jenifer Abreu (@jenabreu1) October 23, 2014 That took us to this story from The Coloradoan. The owner’s is Pete Turner and according to the local story, he visited “Fort Collins on […]

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UPDATE: The Facebook video has been removed but it is still on YouTube. The following video below posted last night on Facebook has already gotten over 100,000 shares on Facebook. It shows students from Sonora, Mexico, protesting the missing students from Ayotzinapa teachers’ college in the Mexican state of Guerrero. The world is waking up […]

UPDATE: MassLive reported news of the decision with detailed minutes of the decision. And apparently, the initial reports by Latino Rebels about an October 7 vote was accurate. That came a day after the council voted 10-5 to override Morse’s veto of an order the council had approved Oct. 7 to establish an indefinite moratorium […]

As a follow-up to a #FergusonOctober commentary piece he wrote last Friday for this page, Rebel Diaz’s Rodrigo Starz wanted to share his group’s latest “Ñ Don’t Stop” episode on TeleSur English: “The Mike Brown Rebellion, Part One.”

Yesterday we posted a piece about racist graffiti at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. We now hear from the University’s Chancellor that “an individual has been charged today in court in connection with his alleged involvement in two recent incidents where racist, intimidating messages were scrawled on residence hall doors.” Here is a copy of […]

So a story by EFE is telling the world that Google “has launched a new Web domain -.SOY- that is intended for members of the Hispanic community, touting it as the ‘place for Latinos online.’” We thought this was an Onion piece, but it is real. Google even has actual people signing up for the […]

In case you missed this one, last weekend Mekahlo Medina, President of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), wrote a post demanding an apology from The New York Daily News for the following editorial cartoon, which had caught the attention of NY1’s Roberto Lacayo: In that post, Medina wrote the following: When I first […]