Earlier this year, Facebook booted a batch of users including InfoWars founder Alex Jones, Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan, conspiracy theorist Paul Joseph Watson, and conservative provocateur Laura Loomer. The social media service claims they violated company policies against dangerous individuals and organizations.
Ramon Bueno had a green light and was driving below the speed limit when Miami Police Officer Lucas Rodrigues ran a red light at double the speed limit and slammed his cruiser into Bueno’s car, killing the 71-year-old husband and father. But according to prosecutors who declined to file criminal charges against Rodrigues, Bueno should have yielded to the speeding cop.
When Noel Lanzas read about a Miami Beach woman who’d called a black, would-be London visitor a “monkey” and other racial slurs, he wasn’t surprised. For almost a year, he says, the same woman — Giulia Ozyesilpinar — had been harassing him for being gay and HIV-positive. She sent emails calling him a “fucken AIDS infested Faggot” and tried to have him fired from his job. Lanzas had already filed a complaint about the harassment with the Miami-Dade Commission on Human Rights, which investigates discrimination, and was awaiting a hearing.
Back in 2012, Miami Beach agreed to make Coca-Cola its “official non-alcoholic beverage sponsor.” Under the terms of the ten-year contract, only Coke products would be sold in vending machines on city property, Coca-Cola would be the official sponsor of all city-run special events, and Miami Beach would commit to buying a whopping 22,500 cases of Coke beverages each year.
The scene outside the Arsht Center last night was, predictably, a circus. As part one of the 20-candidate Democratic presidential debates got underway, the Proud Boys, a Q-Anon guy, and several proud “deplorables” mingled with Twitter castaway Laura Loomer on one side of Biscayne Boulevard. On the other side stood the Miami Democratic Socialists of America, climate activists in swim goggles, “Hands Off Venezuela” folks, and a guy with a sign comparing abortion to the Holocaust.
Thirty miles south of the stage where Democratic candidates will appear for this week’s presidential debates, thousands of children are being held in the country’s only unlicensed, privately run shelter for immigrant kids. At the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children, some have described crying themselves to sleep or worrying they might never be released.
Monifah Brown and her friends thought they’d found the perfect place to stay during their Miami Beach vacation. The Ocean Five Condo Hotel was right on Ocean Drive, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the beach. Brown, a 24-year-old from London, made a reservation on Booking.com for three weeks in September.
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.
