Posts in category Black History

John Lewis PHOTO BY KEVIN HICKS OF SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES By ISHEKA N. HARRISON iharrison@sfltimes.com MIAMI – Over 1,200 Miami-Dade students got a first-hand history …

Dr. Maya Angelou COURTESY OF HISTORY THINGS By DINIZULU GENE TINNIE Special to South Florida Times Of course, every date on the calendar, like every …

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins. PHOTO COURTESY OF AJC MUSIC SCENE By JAKE COYLE Associated Press NEW YORK — “Moonlight” director Barry Jenkins will follow up …

BY JONATHAN LANDRUM JR. Associated Press ATLANTA – As “Underground” starts its second season, it remains firmly rooted in history – but it also very …

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. – Old school music set the mood for the city of North Miami’s second annual “Music in the Plaza” concert. This was …

By SAADSHAW In the early 1950’s I had the honor to hear Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune speak in a packed, hot and humid Clayborn Temple …

By DAPHNE TAYLOR Special to South Florida Times WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – It’s Black History Month, and Major League Baseball Manager, Dusty Baker, has …

By RICHARD RYLES West Palm Beach is set to welcome professional baseball back to town on February 28. The Washington Nationals and Houston Astros now …

Black PR Wire CORAL GABLES, Fla. – It wasn’t the Greensboro sit-in of 1960, when four 17year-old African American college students continued to sit in …

Staff Report MIAMI – The Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation (MLK EDC) will unveil a new 120 square ft. mural by internationally acclaimed artist …