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WASHINGTON — The top-ranking African American in Congress called on President Barack Obama Friday to sharpen his focus on hard-hit minority communities in his plans …

WASHINGTON, D.C. —The housing giant Fannie Mae has launched a free, interactive multi-media tool designed to educate homeowners about their options to avoid foreclosure, empower …

TALLAHASSEE (AP) — A legislative study shows Florida's 59 enterprise zones are attracting relatively few new businesses and jobs to economically distressed areas.

HAVANA (AP) — Cuba on Friday suspended indefinitely all mail service to the United States, extending a ban announced in November and expanding it to …

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Caribbean is attracting tourists in numbers not seen since the start of the global economic crisis, with several islands …

Special to South Florida Times FORT LAUDERDALE —Motorists traveling through Sistrunk Boulevard, the heart of Fort Lauderdale’s black community, are apt to find delays as …

Special to South Florida Times OPA-LOCKA — On the heels of the recent fatal shooting of two Miami-Dade County police detectives in Liberty City, a …

FORT LAUDERDALE — After weeks of denial, a captain in the Broward Sheriff’s Office has admitted a secretive off-duty work program operated out of BSO’s …

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – A Cleveland state senator fighting for more racial diversity on Gov. John Kasich's (KAY'-siks) all-white Cabinet says the governor has told …

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – The Cherokee Nation has appealed a tribal court decision that voided a constitutional amendment denying citizenship to non-Native American descendants of …