‘Half the Sky’ movement spotlighting exploitation of women
MIAMI – Almost 300 people gathered at the Little Haiti Cultural Center recently for a special advance screening of clips from Half the Sky: Turning …
TV One’s ‘Celebrity Crime Files’ premieres Monday
SILVER SPRING, Md. — Leveraging the success of original docu-series Unsung and Life After, TV One is launching Celebrity Crime Files, a new original investigative …
Candidate Seeks Special Prosecutor Into Man’s Hog-Tying Death
By ELGIN JONES EJones@SFLTimes.com FORT LAUDERDALE- The Democratic nominee for Broward County Sheriff says if elected he would reopen an investigation into the 2001 death …
Obama campaign says it surpasses 4 million donors
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) _ President Barack Obama's campaign says it has surpassed 4 million donors, a record for a presidential campaign.
Capsule review ‘The Paperboy’
(AP)-Soaked in sweat and reeking of cigarettes, director Lee Daniels’ follow-up to the Oscar-winning Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire, is quite literally, …
Judges have responsibility to make fearless decisions
This November, Floridians will vote on whether to retain three Florida Supreme Court Justices and 15 District Court of Appeal judges.
Public can text an arts project
Who should receive $20,000 for their arts project? The text-voting public gets to choose.
Urban League, Partners Shrinking Digital Divide
Low-income families with children in Broward County who receive free or reduced-price school lunches as a part of their enrollment in the National School Lunch …
Kudos for Hampton House champs
Enid Pinkney, founding president/CEO of the Historic Hampton House Community Trust, received a proclamation from Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez.
The Boss will campaign for Obama in Ohio, Iowa
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Bruce Springsteen will be back campaigning for President Barack Obama.