Arthur McDuffie

Liberty Square Christmas Eve murder

Barry Jenkins: Borscht Film Fest's real star

Rick Scott's racist clemency rules

No Clemency For Felons Means Southern Racism Is Back

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke explains why Rick Scott is helping the criminal justice system keep African-Americans down. Last week, Florida Gov. ... More >>

Liberty City stalwart stalls big developers

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke explains why Rick Scott is helping the criminal justice system keep African-Americans down. Last week, Florida Gov. ... More >>

Greene Dreams Owner Says County Is Harassing Him For Blocking Development

Greene Dreams has been a Liberty City mainstay for 40 years, but now developers want the space.​Tyrone Greene leans on the glass counter in his family's shoe-repair shop, Greene Dreams, a one-room space crammed with Barack Obama T-shirts, Miami Heat jerseys, and dashikis. A mural just around the c ... More >>

Video: Activist Lays Into Mayor and Police Chief About Cop's Fatal Overtown Shooting

​If you don't understand the raw anger and grief coursing through Overtown this week over Monday's police shooting of an unarmed man at a traffic stop, check out this video.The emotion is palpable inside Overtown's St. John's Baptist Church, where almost 200 gathered last night to demand answers f ... More >>

Political Protest on Wheels

​If you don't understand the raw anger and grief coursing through Overtown this week over Monday's police shooting of an unarmed man at a traffic stop, check out this video.The emotion is palpable inside Overtown's St. John's Baptist Church, where almost 200 gathered last night to demand answers f ... More >>

Grady and the Champ

For better and worse, Muhammad Ali left his mark on a generation of Miami boxers

Press Pass and a Gas Mask

Embedded reporters made the military look good in Iraq, but did they do the same for Miami cops?

We're Number One - A Special Report

Embedded reporters made the military look good in Iraq, but did they do the same for Miami cops?

Letters from the Issue of August 29, 2002

One cop would rather resign than compromise his integrity

Travail to the Chief

Raul Martinez is a product of Miami's dysfunctional police department, so how can he be expected to transform it?

Native Son

Billy Hardemon has been running around Liberty City, and away from allegations of wrongdoing, forever

God Help Us

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of hip-hopness

It Takes a Cuban

After a legendary career as president of the Miami ACLU, John de Leon is heading even further south

Under Suspicion

Despite a history of corruption in its north district substation, the Miami Police Department won't get tough with its own cops

The Knight of Blight

Miami developer Aristides Martinez once seemed an inner-city savior. Today he goes by another name: Slumlord.

You Have Mail!

In response to Alex Penelas's inflammatory Elian speech, hundreds of citizens labeled him a demagogue, a coward, and a traitor. And those are just the epithets we can print.

Less for Moore

Times are tough for grocer Lawrence Moore and his Overtown neighbors. Will the county help out? No way.

Riptide

Serious downplaying

Grand illusions

When a gutsy group of homegrown entrepreneurs tried to turn around the black Grove, they failed miserably

Born to Lose

Created after the 1980 riots, the Metro Miami Action Plan was supposed to level the playing field for blacks. What happened?

The Late Shift

Miami's mean streets are being patrolled by a new breed of cop -- smart, young, tough, hip to the neighborhood. And she's ambitious, too.

Wait'll Next Year!

Nothing like a sports championship to bring out the beast in a city

From Knight Manor to Nightmare

Just when a forlorn section of Liberty City is about to get the help it so desperately needs, along comes Miller Dawkins on his political bulldozer

Power to the Parish

Father Jose Luis Menendez of Wynwood takes the church to the people and the people to the streets