Hollywood rising stars Melissa Barrera and Tonatiuh are joining forces with Latin music heavyweights Los Tigres Del Norte and Chiquis for an American Friends Service Committee-led PSA campaign to champion the contributions of Latino immigrants in the United States. Rolling Stone can exclusively reveal the PSA campaign, titled “Immigrants Make …
Read More »Trump's Latino Support Shouldn't Be Surprising
The usual Democratic hand-wringing over the Latino vote exit polls seems almost quaint right now. In past cycles, Democrats securing the Latino vote by big margins was all but a given, and the quibbling was at the margins around how much support Obama or Clinton actually got. But Latino demographics …
Read More »Puerto Rico's Archbishop Demands Trump 'Personally' Apologize After Rally Backlash
The Archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico, has demanded Republican candidate Donald Trump personally apologize after controversial comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage” and made racist comments about Latinos during Trump’s rally atMadison Square Garden on Sunday. “I enjoy a good joke,” Archbishop Roberto O. …
Read More »Extremely Racist 'Comedian' Speaks at Trump Rally, Calls Puerto Rico 'Garbage'
Controversial comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made several racist comments about Latinos at former President Donald Trump’s rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York City. “I welcome migrants to the United States of America with open arms. And by open arms I mean like this,” Hinchcliffe said, waving his …
Read More »Univision Town Hall Participants Unimpressed With 'Arrogant' Trump
Undecided Latino voters who participated in Donald Trump’s Univision town hall on Wednesday were left deeply unimpressed by the former president. Three participants in the event expressed their frustration over Trump’s failure to answer them directly or explain his policy proposals in interviews with Rolling Stone. Two of them indicated …
Read More »'Cobra Kai' to 'Blue Beetle': Xolo Maridueña on His Action-Hero Journey
Xolo Maridueña has been an action star since he was sixteen, when he debuted on the endlessly entertaining Cobra Kai as Miguel, a budding karate champ who gets Mr. Miyagi-ed by both Danny LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka).But now, at age 22, he’s a full-blown superhero, starring …
Read More »'Blue Beetle' Is the Same Old DCEU Superhero Movie — With One Big Difference
There’s a lot that’s familiar in Blue Beetle, the latest from — and one of the last remnants of — a dying cinematic universe. It’s a superhero origin story movie, so you’ve got a good sense of what you’re getting right from the get-go: someone ordinary getting thrown into something …
Read More »'Primo' Is a Feel-Good, Coming-of-Age Comedy for the Whole Family
Rafa Gonzales, the protagonist of the exceedingly likable new family comedy Primo, lives in San Antonio with his mother, Drea. Their modest ranch house should be more than enough for the two of them, if it weren’t for the fact that all five of Drea’s loud, opinionated, intrusive, knucklehead brothers …
Read More »John Leguizamo Calls Out Hollywood: You're Failing Us Latinos
It’s not that we Latin people are silent, it’s that we are muted mostly because there are not enough Latinx journalists to amplify what is happening in our communities. Look at New York City. We are equal to whites in population but you barely see any Latino names on mastheads …
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