South Florida homeless celebrate their birthday with huge party
Miami Rescue Mission and Broward Outreach Centers recently showered guests who are homeless and in need with food, special gifts, giveaways, and birthday cake at …
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Cuban artist bolsters black pride through hair competion
By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ HAVANA — A young Afro-Cuban performance artist transformed a Havana cultural center into the stage of a black hairstyle competition this weekend …
Local Juneteenth celebrations honor freedom from slavery
South Floridians will honor the date when Texas slaves belatedly learned of their emancipation with a variety of activities across the region. The Spady Cultural …
Parks join attempt for ‘swimming lesson’ record
MIAMI — This morning, tens of thousands of kids and adults at aquatic facilities around the world will unite for the sixth year in a …
Palm Beach State explores extinguishing all tobacco
By TABATHA B. MCDONALD Special to South Florida Times LAKE WORTH — Is Palm Beach State College ready to ban smoking and tobacco on campus? …
Purvis Young’s art comes home to Overtown
MIAMI — Since his death in 2010, much of the art of Miami artist Purvis Young has been housed at the Bass Museum of Art …
The Verdenia Baker story
WEST PALM BEACH — A woman of great brilliance, she is a wife, a mother, a mentor, and now, Verdenia Baker will also be …
Police and community interact for change
Alan Luby/ For South Florida Times At times the rhetoric became downright heated as residents in Palm Beach County packed the County Council chambers at …
Pi Delta Omega Chapter presents five young ladies at cotillion
MIAMI — Pi Delta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority joined with Pearls of HOPE Foundation Inc., to host its annual Debutante Cotillion on …
Airport workers strike in protest of low wages
Fort Lauderdale — Dozens of airline-contracted wheelchair attendants at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport went on strike on Tuesday to protest poverty wages and alleged federal …