Foster home gets ‘extreme makeover’ from volunteers
MIAMI — Volunteers from The Continental Group gave an extreme makeover to a group home of the Center for Family and Child Enrichment in Miami …
National College Fair to ease admissions
Fort Lauderdale — The Greater Fort Lauderdale National College Fair sponsored by the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) is coming to Fort Lauderdale.
Artists invited to create airport pedestrian bridge art
Fort Lauderdale — Broward Cultural Division’s Public Art & Design Program plans to commission a professional artist or team of artists to create what the …
Campaign challenges pre-K, kindergarten
Every year, millions of adults and children gather on a single day to set a new reading record and to show their support for early …
Pastor Forbes spices Open Door revival
(Florida International University) –Liberty City — Living a life of the body and the spirit is what makes people feel productive and satisfied, an internationally …
Miami-Dade officials organizing against domestic violence
Miami-Dade County Commissioner Audrey M. Edmonson, left, joined Miami-Dade County School Board Member Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall for the “No More Broken Hearts Workshop” held at the …
‘Ides’ marches political fault line
Special to South Florida Times — “Beware the Ides of March” is the classic phrase uttered by a soothsayer in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Historically, it …
Overtown Music Project: Fontainebleau fundraiser swings
Special to South Florida Times—Growing up in Miami’s “Brown Sub” neighborhood, Lawrence Adams Sr. frequently found himself at the Lyric Theater on Northwest Second Avenue …
‘Mother of hip-hop’ was 76
NEW YORK (AP) — The woman some call the mother of hip-hop has died. Sylvia Robinson, the record label owner who released Rapper's Delight, rap's …
What we think: The racists among us
From the moment when Barack Obama was elected President of the United States of America, forces in the financial/economic establishment and in politics set themselves …