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Race didn’t play into the Zimmerman verdict? Not at all? Race and perceptions of it didn’t even cross the jurors’ mind? Right, this was never about race. Listen to Juror B37 last night on CNN. Memo: Spanish people are from Spain. There is a general rule that anyone who refers to U.S. Latinos as Spanish […]

UPDATE: NTSB adds more clarification to statement. UPDATE: The NTSB confirmed that a summer intern was the one who confirmed the joke names the station was asking about. Seriously? We got this one from 8Asians.com, and yes, it actually happened. Watch this report from Oakland’s KTVU: The station had to apologize after the break: SFGate.com […]

After the story of a Target manager handbook providing bizarre multicultural tips about Latinos went viral on the Internet, the company issued a statement to The Huffington Post. Here is what Target spokeswoman Molly Snyder shared with the HuffPost: It is never Target’s intent to offend our team members or guests and we apologize. The […]

We caught this from The HuffPost, which picked it up from The Courthouse News. According to a CN post, Target was accused in a lawsuit of offending employees for a “multicultural tips” to inform store managers “that not all Hispanic employees eat tacos, dance to salsa or wear sombreros.” The CN stories continues: Robert Gonzalez, […]

We spoke to GOYA today. Here is the latest. Yesterday we wrote about whether the placement of a large GOYA Foods logo was appropriate on the base of a new Roberto Clemente statue unveiled last week in a New York state park in the Bronx. The initial social media reaction from New Yorkers of Puerto […]

Seriously? This in from Santa Fe. What do you think? Looks like the controversy is brewing out in New Mexico, as this local story reports: The man in charge of the Santa Fe Reporter said Our Lady of Guadalupe is an iconic symbol of Santa Fe, and that’s why the weekly newspaper included a version […]

Yesterday groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), Center for Immigration Studies, Eagle Forum, Heritage Action, Heritage Foundation, NumbersUSA, and ProEnglish (many of which are part of the vast neonativist and racially-tinged anti-anything-immigration network formed by John Tanton) decided to hold a #NoAmnesty Twitter party. We decided to crash the party, along with […]

Rep. Steve King, the GOP congressman who pushed a restrictive amendment in the House of Representatives basically calling for the end of deferred action for DREAMers, took his opinions to Twitter this morning when his profile tweeted the following: 20 brazen self professed illegal aliens have just invaded my DC office. Obama’s lawless order gives […]

Four weeks ago at a 2013 Memorial Cup hockey game in Saskatoon, Canadian jazz singer Alexis Normand botched the U.S. national anthem. Like really botched it. Watch. Normand admitted that she goofed and didn’t have time to learn the lyrics, so she was given a second chance to sing the anthem again at a later […]

UPDATE: Sebastien de la Cruz responded to the haters with 100% class. This one came from the Tumblr page of Public Shaming, and it is yet another racist example of how anti-Latino hatred runs deep in the social media world of the United States of America. Last night in San Antonio before Game 3 of […]

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) […]