Stay ConnectedCommentary, news and analysis of the U.S. Latino world. Engaging traviesos. A 2019 iHeart Radio Podcast Awards nominee for Best Multicultural Podcast hosted by award-wining journalist Julio Ricardo Varela.
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As we head into the final hours of this year's Hispanic Heritage Month (did you survive it?), we wanted to end of a positive note by talking about Getty Images' new Nosotros Collection, "an initiative that aims to reimagine the visual representation of the Latinx/Hispanic community within the North America media and advertising landscape." Our latest episode talks about the collection and why it was so badly needed.
Featured image: Portrait of two Brown Latina women during sunset. (Photo by Evelyn Martínez/Getty Images Nosotros Collection)
Editor's Note: Futuro Media, which produces Latino Rebels, has a Getty Images subscription.
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Last year around this time, Ana María Archila was one of the women who confronted Senator Jeff Flake in an elevator during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings. We connected with Archila this weekend to talk about the moment and its impact on progressive politics one year later.
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This week, Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro let his supporters know that his campaign would be be over if he didn't make the debate stage in November. On this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, host Julio Ricardo Varela talks with Castro about the challenges he is facing, plus whether the former San Antonio mayor thinks the U.S. Latino community continues to be almost invisible during this current election cycle.
Featured image: Julián Castro looks on in the spin room after the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University on September 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi of Defend PR stops by the Futuro Media studios in Harlem to talk with Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela about the second anniversary of Hurricane María hitting Puerto Rico and a new documentary project that highlights the resiliency of young Puerto Ricans in the town of Comerío.
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Salvador Sarmiento of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) joins Latino Rebels Radio host Julio Ricardo Varela to talk about last weekend's #ElPasoFirme event. But first, Julio and Salvador share their thoughts on the Houston Democratic debate and whether Democrats fully understand the politics of immigration.
Featured image: Art installations line the festival grounds at Ascarate Park during El Paso Firme. (Photo by Max Herman)
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Latino Rebels Radio welcomes journalist Ed Morales to talk about his newest book, Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico. As the book's tagline says, "A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the U.S." We agree. Morales tells us why his latest work is so relevant today.
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On Thursday, an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) opened fire in the parking lot of grocery story located in one of Nashville's immigrant neighborhoods, injuring a man who had reportedly refused to show the agent his identification. Local reports say the man is 39 years old and from Veracruz, Mexico. Why did this happen? We talk with Brenda Pérez of the MIX Nashville to discuss the latest. The MIX is a grassroots organization that focuses on community organizing and immigration rights.
Featured image: Law enforcement officers investigate the scene where shots were fired involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the parking lot of a Food Lion store on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019, in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville, Tenn. (Shelley Mays/The Tennessean via AP)
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On this latest episode of Latino Rebels Radio, we talk with Hector Rodriguez, creator of EL PESO HERO, an independent comic book series based in the borderlands of Mexico and the United States. The series focuses on a rogue hero who stands up to the powerful and corrupt with the hope of uplifting the voiceless and putting an end to injustice.
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Agatha Bacelar is a 27-year-old Brazilian-American who lives in San Francisco. She is also running for U.S. Congress in California District 12—Nancy Pelosi's district. We welcome Bacelar to talk about her background and why she is deciding to run now against the country's most powerful Democrat.
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This year, Latino Rebels Radio partnered up with the Afro-Latino Festival for the “AfrolatinTalks – Podcast Edition,” powered by Latino Rebels/Futuro Media Group. In this collaboration, we’re bringing you panel-style conversations that happened live during the festival right here on the Latino Rebels Radio podcast.
Today, we're releasing the third and final podcast of the series, titled "Perspectives on Identity, Belonging and Culture." You will hear from Artist and sociocultural critic Zahira Kelly, Trans activist Valerie Summer Herrera Ramirez, Ashley “Venom” Solage of III Points Festival, business owner Mirium Babel of Ode to Babel, and New York City Councilman Raphael Espinal.
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