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UPDATE: Jones apologized last night, although are we wondering if he was “jk” about the apology, too. I realize that my tweet yest was offensive and distasteful. An attempt at humor was a terrible mistake. Please accept my heartfelt apology! — Chipper Jones (@RealCJ10) June 9, 2013 Maybe former Atlanta Brave and future Hall of […]

We know, we know. Sometimes we should chuckle a bit, and that might be the case here after a reader sent us a picture of a menu item from The Bada Bean restaurant in Tallahassee, FL. The item is called “The Border Patrol,” a Healthy Start dish with “two egg whites, chopped avocado, and tomato […]

Late yesterday, Whole Foods issued a formal bilingual statement in response to an Associated Press story about how two employees of the Austin-based company were suspended one day at a New Mexico store for speaking Spanish during work hours and violating policy. The original AP story went viral on social media, and our own @julito77 […]

In an opinion column for NBC Latino this afternoon, Latino Rebels founder @julito77 received official comments from Whole Foods’ Media Relations team regarding an Associated Press story published earlier today by NBC Latino where two Whole Foods employees in New Mexico claimed that they were suspended a day’s work for speaking Spanish during work hours. […]

UPDATE: Whole Foods has responded. Et tú, Whole Foods? According to an Associated Press story published by NBC Latino, two Whole Foods employees said that they were suspended from their jobs “after complaining about being told they couldn’t speak Spanish to each other while on the job.” The story said that these two employees worked […]

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 questions as to whether the U.S. State Department authorized and approved a Gangnam-inspired “USA Visa Style” parody video produced and uploaded to YouTube by the U.S. Embassy in Costa Rica, a State Department official provided us with the following statement: Our embassies and consulates around the world are always looking for new […]

File this one under the following category: Some Ideas Are Best Left As Ideas. Who thought that doing a “USA Visa Style” video for the United States Embassy in Costa Rica was a great idea? Here’s the scoop: it’s not. Not now, not yesterday, not tomorrow. You can see the original video here, at the […]

After a day where pretty much everyone in the Latino online space went 100% crazy against the move by Disney to file trademarks on the words “Día de los Muertos,” a company spokesperson confirmed that all the filings will be dropped. Here is what the spokesperson told FronterasDesk.org: As we have previously announced, Disney-Pixar is […]

UPDATE: Disney says that they will now withdraw the filings. An interesting story out of Disney. According to a blog that covers all things Disney, the company has formally filed a federal trademark to copyright “Día de los Muertos.” Here is what the blog reported: Within the past few days, The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) […]

Last week an online group called Concerned Chicagoans went online to publicly criticize a neighorhood-wide “Derby de Mayo” celebration being held in several Lincoln Park establishments. You can read more about what they wrote here, but essentially the CC post  asked readers the following: “What we ask is that folks think critically about the Chicago community. We are not post-racial. […]

Nike+ FuelBand  is supposed to be the cool and hip interactive and social device you use each to keep track of your active lifestyle. Today being May 5, many users of the FuelBand got the following trophy when they finish their walking or running: Of course. We did a little more digging about this and […]

Here we go again. Just a few months after sororities at both Baylor and Penn State made national headlines for their racist “Mexican-themed” photos, a sorority at Cal State San Marcos is the latest example “When Sororities Go Racist.” As reported by NBC Latino, Alpha Chi Omega felt the brunt of the San Marcos community […]

Really, dude? As Deadspin so aptly put it about ESPN’s OTL coverage of NBA Jason Collins telling Sports Illustrated that he is gay, “OTL booked Chris Broussard to have a discussion with openly gay correspondent LZ Granderson, and it rapidly devolved into a talk about whether or not gay sex is sinful. Huh?” Now we know […]

Some initials work and some don’t. This is one case where shortening the name “Souther Pecan Iced Coffee” (apparently a New Orleans delicacy) into its initials does not work. Out of context, this is just not right. (Source: Instagram) Yeah, we know it wasn’t intentional, but seriously weird to see.

Where do we start? Ok, let’s start here. Yes, there is a PETA Latino, and we don’t know why. Someone in PETA has actually spent money on creating a new “Latino” page for animal rights? Why, because the actually mainstream PETA page is not good enough or gets the job done? PETA really thinks that […]

Yup, even Groupon’s computer filters think Cuban food is the same as Mexican food. The cultural gaffe find was discovered and tweeted out by @lpolinsky earlier today Huge @groupon screwup (unless Mexico’s invaded Cuba). But maybe I shouldn’t talk: all deal sites look the same to me. twitter.com/lpolinsky/stat… — lpolinsky (@lpolinsky) April 26, 2013 Dear […]

Can this get any more awful? The following video posted by World Star Hiphop NYC earlier today has gone viral on Facebook (now deleted), and it is shameful. Completely unacceptable, and abusive. We can’t even begin to explain it, but apparently some witty pendejo thinks he is a comedian. Watch. (By the way, the video […]

Jan Brewer sure knows how to dig in her heels. But if you follower her logic, she too is an “illegal.” Give it up to the Phoenix New Times for making the connection. Here is the exchange they posted between Brewer and ABC News’ Jim Avila: When asked about why she still uses “illegal immigrant,” […]

If you have been online this week, you must have heard about the story of A.J. Clemente, who was fired by a local North Dakota NBC affiliate for uttering a curse word on live TV. It was a mistake, and it was clear from the video that Clemente wasn’t purposely trying to curse on television. […]