Latino Rebels

The following video of Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) essentially shredding Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) this week on the floor of the Senate says it all. The video was posted by the Senate Democrats. It’s pretty obvious why. Durbin 1, Canadian-born Senator 0.

In response to an appearance by White House Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz yesterday on MSNBC’s Jose Díaz Balart show, immigration rights activist Erika Andiola issued the following statement, essentially calling out Muñoz for using Andiola’s family to defend a decision by President Obama to delay any additional action on immigration reform: As a Latina, […]

The latest from the Immigrant America series is out.

Earlier today, White House Policy Council Director Cecilia Muñoz appeared on MSNBC with José Díaz-Balart. Let the spin begin. Can this get any more complicated and out of whack? Can it get any more political? Can it get any more shameful? Now all this delay is based on this summer’s “border crisis.” The irony of […]

Yesterday in Bakersfield, California, Merri Silva, the mother of David Sal Silva —a father of four who died in the custody of Kern County deputies and California Highway Patrol officers last May— told the local press that she will continue to demand justice for her dead son. These 16 months…I’ve had all kinds of emotions. […]

LATEST UPDATE, September 11, 2014: The name has been changed. UPDATE, September 7, 2014: Bandidos has responded on its Facebook page. In case you want more context, meet the owners. That led to Gómez, who lives in The Castro, to write the following: “Hi Bandidos thanks for responding—we would like you to change the name. […]

Yesterday, HuffPost Live host Marc Lamont Hill had Raúl De Molina of El Gordo y la Flaca (you know, that show with all those women in sexy bikinis) to discuss diversity in media. Considering the fact that Spanish-language television in the United States is perhaps one of the biggest perpetuators of the “hot Latina stereotype,” […]

Recently, author Luis Alberto Urrea, one of our favorite authors ever (yes, ever), gave a TedX talk called “The Answer, and Then The Question.” This is a 19-minute must watch. Simple as that. And while you are it, give Luis a follow on Twitter.

Is this 2012 all over again? After what seemed to be progress in 2013 when it came to addressing the Kennedy Center’s abysmal “Latino problem,” this morning the Kennedy Center released its 2014 list of honorees. This morning’s news did not sit well with Felix Sanchez, chairman and co-founder of National Hispanic Foundation for the […]

The following video of three Houston Independent School District (HISD) police officers has led to controversy at Sam Houston High School this week. Yesterday, Ixel Perez, the student in the video, spoke to local Houston media about what she said happened: video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player Perez said it all started because she refused to […]

This week we received an email from Raúl Pérez, a Ph.D. student in sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Pérez wanted to let us know about his latest study (full document below)—a critical and scholarly analysis of the 1960s “José Jiménez” character. As Pérez states in his summary: This study examines US comedian Bill […]

Not a day goes by where we don’t get pitched. The vast majority of emails we get come from independent artists, musicians, filmmakers or authors asking if we can check out their work and if we like it, can we help promote it. Most of the the time we do. However, here is an example […]

You would think that by 2014 —after years of seeing fish stick fails or Latino-inspired bleaches— companies and the agencies they hire would finally get a clue about how best to thrive in a U.S. market that is becoming more diverse. You would think that these companies and their agencies would go beyond the stale […]

Looks like Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz is kicking it into high-gear for the upcoming midterms. Here is a snippet of what he said Saturday after speaking at Americans for Prosperity’s “Defending the American Dream” summit. Yes, he actually made reference to the guy in the Osama Bid Laden costume. But, Senator Cruz, what about the […]

A group with ties to Murrieta, California, that has 1,500 Facebook members is actively recruiting supporters via social media to organize a “Shut Down All Ports of Entry” along the US-Mexico border. According to the group’s site, the attempt to close all these ports of entry will start at 8:00amPST on September 20. Here is […]

In response to last week’s Sofía Vergara Emmy moment, five Latina journalists (@SenoritaHuete, @RubiMartinezTV, @grissyflrs, @Joanna_Renteria and @Sotelo_Brenda) decided to produce a video about what they think.

This following is a video of Ly Kou. Kou and others spoke in front of the Riverside, CA, City Council about whether or not Riverside should become a sanctuary city for recent Central American migrants fleeing their countries. Riverside eventually voted against the measure, but it looks like Kou needs to brush up on her […]

This. Now we have a response to all of you who think we are just obsessed and need to “get over it.” Just like the response we have for “reverse racism.”

On August 29, 1970, what began as a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War turned into one of the worst examples of police brutality in the history of the United States.

While the English-language U.S. press has focused on Central American migrants journeying north, little is being written about the migrant crisis happening in Costa Rica. Contrary to reports that Nicaragua is not experiencing much migration to the United States when compared to countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, one fact is being largely […]

The latest episode from EddieG is out. This week: a spoken word piece called “On Ferguson.”