All posts on August, 2013

CHICAGO – Hearing the screams of 14-year-old lynching victim Emmett Till from inside a Mississippi barn left a teenage field hand with an unbearable choice. …

Trayvon Martin is more valuable to America as a dead young black man than he ever was alive.  As a dead symbol, the president can …

OPA-LOCKA — Opa-locka elected officials recently changed the city’s land-use codes to encourage developers to build a mix of restaurants, grocery stores, office buildings and …

MIAMI GARDENS – Two steel cranes hover over the three unfinished buildings. Dust flies as construction workers sit on ledges hammering away, while others operate …

MIAMI – Florida could be hit with a statewide tourism boycott if Gov. Rick Scott and the Legislature remain intransigent despite persistent calls for repeal …

MIAMI GARDENS – Prominent political leaders in the African-American community joined together in a meeting headed by Congresswoman Frederica Wilson to plan strategy to force …

POMPANO BEACH – “No justice, No peace! No justice, No peace!” Carlene Duncan shouted over a microphone as she led a march and rally in …

RIVIERA BEACH –  Bishop Harold Calvin Ray of Redemptive Life Fellowship Church,  Bisoph W. Oshea Granger of Mount Calvary Baptist Church and Bishop Thomas Masters …

RICHMOND HEIGHTS – Efforts to counter a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that invalidated the key Section 5 provision of the Voting Rights Act has picked …

CORRECTION: Due to a reporting error, the Aug. 1 article, “Nelson, Rubio pressed on nominee,” stated that Florida Sens. Bill Nelson and Marco Rubio had …