A college education prepares us to better serve those less fortunate
The rigors of an education, both at the college and graduate level, has and will continue to defeat the spirit of some of the brightest …
Study: Minority youth have bigger media appetites
(Associated Press) – CHICAGO — Minority youth spend more than half their day consuming media content, a rate that’s 4.5 hours greater than for their …
Path to change never easy, Obama tells Miami crowd
Special to South Florida Times The 22 students from former Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning’s Overtown Youth Center in Miami didn’t take their eyes off …
Role of blacks in American railroad being celebrated
The recently formed national Black Railroader’s Historical Society, which seeks to promote the history of African Americans and the U.S. rail system, will hold a …
From Paris with love — for Maverick champ
Special to South Florida Times It’s a long way from Paris to Miami. But, for the Mahinmis, it was worth it to see their son …
Housing group putting spotlight on Brownsville
Special to South Florida Times Everett Stewart Sr. moved in 1955 to Brownsville, an area he describes as “still always quiet and filled with mostly …
COPS Investigated Over Drug Bust
FORT LAUDERDALE — Members of an elite and high profile Fort Lauderdale police crime-fighting unit have been relieved of duty with pay pending the outcome …
Redistricting group calls Fla. hearings ‘sham’
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) _ A group trying to prevent gerrymandering says upcoming public hearings on redistricting are a "sham.''
Blacks’ role in Confederacy remains touchy subject
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) _ As America embarks on four years of Civil War commemorations, it revives an unsettling debate that lingers 150 years after the …
Southern Baptists poised for historic election
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) _ The man expected to be in the running to become the first African-American in the No. 2 position of the nation's …