Urban League of Greater Miami

Miami Urban League Charged by HUD for Discriminating Against Disabled Veteran

​The Urban League of Greater Miami helped to desegregate public housing in Dade County, supported Miami's Fair Housing Ordinance, and over the past seven decades has spearheaded a number of housing projects in the county. Now, shockingly, U.S. Department of Housing and Urb ... More >>

UnFair

A local leader testifies before Congress ... with questionable backing

Checks and Balances

Down in Flames

Miami's business leaders vowed to yank MIA from the clutches of politicians, but the politicians yanked back

Smaller Is Better

The case for breaking up the grossly dysfunctional Miami-Dade County school district

The Meek Shall Inherit the House

And in the process dynasty trumps democracy

CIP VIPs

A list to nominate members for Miami's new Civilian Investigative Panel comes together in typical Magic City fashion

Fear and Loathing in la Escuela

President Eduardo Padron has instituted an impressive program of intimidation at Miami-Dade Community College

Schoolhouse Knocks

Although the Liberty City Charter School helped make Jeb Bush governor, four years on it's barely passing

A Historic Dip

Witnesses to the segregated history of Virginia Beach tell a sorry but inspiring tale

Born to Lose

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

Chairman of the Board

Folks don't know much about school board chairman Solomon Stinson, but they do know this: Don't cross him

A Day of Reckoning

The Devil and Mr. Jones

Activist Leroy Jones battled personal demons and has emerged as a radical bent on black empowerment.

Jeb Repackaged

The Kids Love Him!

A lousy federal indictment isn't going to keep Humberto Hernandez down -- not with South Florida's generous youngsters as campaign contributors

From Knight Manor to Nightmare, Part 2

One of Miller Dawkins's legacies to the City of Miami is turning out to be every bit the quagmire it promised to be

Calendar for the week

Letters

Token Ridership

Metrobus is Dade's most effective public transportation. But when it comes to funding, the bus system and its patrons always get taken for a ride.

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

A Whiter Shade of Green

Black in the Red

Everyone expected Charles Howze's Z Mart to be a model for minority-run businesses in Dade. In a sad way it was: It went bankrupt.

White on Black