Rich Wilkerson Jr.’s footwear was modest — at least by megachurch preacher standards. In a photo snapped earlier this month at the Vous Conference, an annual gathering held by his church in Miami, the celebrity pastor wore a pair of Air Force 1s valued at about $80. Beside him, another preacher donned a $2,400 pair of Nikes.
The day before Father’s Day in 2017, Ramon Bueno was driving through an intersection when a Miami police car driven by Officer Lucas Rodrigues blew through a red light and slammed into Bueno’s driver’s side door. The impact was so powerful that the two cars spun out of control and crashed into a car stopped at the light.
By the time they arrived in Homestead, the migrant children had already taken an unwitting tour through American detention facilities with nicknames such as “la hielera” — “the ice box” — and “la perrera” — “the dog kennel.” Some had been separated from their parents at the southern border, usually after begging for a goodbye that guards refused to allow.
June 26 and 27, a whopping 20 Democratic candidates for president will take the stage at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts just north of downtown Miami in the first debates of the 2020 election cycle. They will bicker, slam Donald Trump, and almost certainly embarrass themselves by…
As the organizers hosted a news conference promoting the festival, prominent local LGBTQ organizations including SAVE, South Florida’s oldest LGBTQ-rights group, announced they had serious concerns about the event and who stands to profit from it.
It’s difficult to comprehend how much plastic is used only once. About 40 percent of the 448 million tons produced each year is intended to be disposable, according to National Geographic, and what doesn’t get recycled or dumped in a landfill often ends up in the ocean.
In Miami, a city where almost 77 percent of people speak a language other than English at home, the language barrier between rideshare drivers and passengers can be pretty real — so real, in fact, that one bilingual Miamian wrote an open letter asking Uber to implement a language option.
Scot Peterson, the Broward Sheriff’s Office school resource officer who failed to protect Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students in the February 14, 2018 massacre, was fired today and arrested on 11 criminal charges related to his conduct the day of the shooting.
For eight years, Carnival Cruise Line’s ships systematically dumped waste into the ocean and lied about it to regulators. After being convicted of seven felony charges related to the conspiracy, the company in 2016 agreed to a record fine of $40 million and five years of probation.
The attorneys who helped secure the Flores settlement — an agreement that sets standards for the detention, treatment and release of migrant children — filed a motion today to enforce the settlement at the Homestead shelter for unaccompanied minors.
Since it reopened last year under the Trump administration, the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children has quickly expanded. But two former employees claim they weren’t trained — or paid — properly for their work at the shelter. And after they complained, they said, they were fired.
In 2017, Miami Beach voters overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to move last call from 5 a.m. to 2 a.m. on Ocean Drive. But at a recent meeting, the city’s police chief, Dan Oates, suggested closing area bars even earlier — at midnight — during the busiest two weeks of spring break.
Fane Lozman’s U.S. Supreme Court victory against the city of Riviera Beach is highlighted in Matthew Billy’s new podcast about censorship, called Bleeped.
Alessandra Mondolfi was painting hearts on a poster board outside of the Homestead child migrant camp last Friday when she spotted a pair of law enforcement officers walking toward her. An artist and activist who’s part of a group of protesters maintaining an almost daily presence outside the facility, Mondolfi…
Henny & Waffles, a traveling hip-hop brunch party that features Hennessy and a waffle station, has been described as an “affordable, good, clean and fun environment.” Founded by a D.C.-area duo, it’s aimed at young professionals and has made previous stops in Atlanta, Charlotte, and New York City.
For the third year in a row, Verizon Wireless is offering a free STEM summer camp at Florida International University with the admirable goal of increasing minority representation in science and math fields. But apparently they forgot that girls, too, are underrepresented. The camp is for boys only.
Earlier this week, a salacious video started making the rounds on social media. In it, a woman books it down a Miami Beach street, tailed by a man with nary a thread of clothing on his body. “Stop her!” he yells. “She’s got my Rolex!”
Another black teen has come forward accusing a different BSO cop of slamming him to the ground. The mother of 17-year-old Jordan Bennett went public Monday with a video showing a deputy holding the teen to the floor of the cafeteria at Blanche Ely High School in Pompano Beach.
Just in time for graduation season, the folks at Hotpads are out with a new study showing that housing is becoming impossibly expensive for recent grads. Analysts with the site found a typical graduate would have to spend a staggering 77 percent of his or her income on the median monthly rent in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area.
Last year, the City of Miami kicked Ultra Music Festival, one of the best-known electronic music festivals in the world, out of its longtime home at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. And now, after what can only be described as a challenging edition on Virginia Key this past March, Ultra’s…
This year, the city has sought out local artists of color to curate installations and exhibits aimed at black visitors. The goal is to change perceptions of Memorial Day weekend and of Miami Beach.
When Kaitlin McKeon was confronted with the results of her drug test, she already knew what it would show: positive for marijuana. Before she’d even enrolled in the nursing program at Nova Southeastern University, the bubbly then-23-year-old had told school officials she had a medical marijuana card and used the drug to relieve her chronic stomach pain.
