All posts on February, 2009

Long before opponents of the country’s most prominent “community organizer” made that description sound like a dirty word, former Miami-Dade County Commissioner Betty Ferguson was …

MIAMI – April Yvette Thompson spent time working at the Belafonte Tacolcy Center as a young girl. On Wednesday morning, she returned as an accomplished …

WASHINGTON (AP) – After devoting money and time in search of a rescue for the ailing banking sector, President Barack Obama on this week demanded …

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama gave America the audacity to hope again. After describing the U.S. economy in nearly apocalyptic terms for weeks, pushing …

The news has gone around the world. Thirty thousand Haitians are targeted for deportation by ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement).  Just imagine, 30,000!

Every time people of African descent allow themselves to get into a discussion – which amounts to an argument – about so-called “race,” especially with …

A month ago, the world watched what House Majority Whip Congressman James E. Clyburn called, “the greatest shift of power in the world” – the …

MIAMI – The case against the Rev. Gaston Smith will have to wait. Smith’s trial on second-degree grand theft charges was set to begin on …

My very first interaction with the cast and crew of Sisters! A Celebration of the Human Spirit, was at one of their rehearsals.  To get …

FORT LAUDERDALE — In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Old Dillard Museum has partnered with Women in Distress of Broward County (WID) and the …