AIDS Walk raises $640,000
Staff Report FT. LAUDERDALE — Thousands of people from across the state recently helped raise $640,000 for lifesaving HIV/AIDS services in South Florida in the …
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Can somebody please pass the salt?
Lately, I’ve been fervently in prayer for Christ’s Church everywhere, wondering to myself, and now out loud: Has the Church lost its saltiness? If so, …
Education deemed key to jobs
Special to South Florida Times Black America has been battered by the recession. Unemployment rates are at an all-time high and there is no one …
Obama: U.S. had no choice but to act against Gadhafi
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, in a nationally televised evening speech Monday, said the United States was driven to intervene in Libya by the …
ACLU urges Miami to hold independent probe of shootings
Special to South Florida Times The American Civil Liberties Union has called for an independent investigator to look into the killings of seven black men …
AIDS survivor tells story of ‘dying’ four times from disease
Special to South Florida Times RIVIERA BEACH — Dale Smith has clinically died and come back to life four times.
What we think: Giving youth a purpose
The Miami-Dade County Commission, and, in particular, Commissioner Barbara Jordan of District 1, must be commended for creating the Youth Commission that has begun to …
What we think: In defense of the innocent
Only the heartless can try to argue against the central premise for President Barack Obama’s decision to use the American military to prevent an almost …
The business model does not fit education
I am willing to believe that Gov. Rick Scott means well when announcing his intent to run the state education system as if it were …
Colonialism has a much different face now
Back during the days of world colonialism, countries that wanted to expand their empires found that taking over kingdoms and nations was relatively easy. Of …