One white lady talked about how unfair it is that black parents have to teach their kids how to act in front of cops so they don’t get shot. “I don’t have to teach that to my son,” she said. “Something has to change.” Then another white woman said it’s…

For the past week, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has faced relentless criticism for refusing to stand during the singing of the National Anthem before games. He’s protesting police brutality and oppression of African-Americans in this country. Kaepernick haters include college football analyst Paul Feinbaum, NFL commentator Rodney Harrison,…

African-American pundits such as Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson and columnist Charles M. Blow have taken some hard whacks at Donald Trump’s recent attempts to court black voters. But talking heads like these are completely out of touch with everyday African-Americans. Trump is 100 percent correct when he says…

Back in April, President Obama invited Nicki Minaj, Chance the Rapper, Ludacris, J. Cole, and Common — oh, and Miami resident DJ Khaled — to the White House to discuss criminal-justice reform. A White House official told Time magazine the president had selected these artists because of the work they…

When it comes to reporting on crime and other bad things happening in Miami, local TV stations do not provide fair and balanced coverage. In fact, mainstream news organizations are out to destroy African-American communities. Consider this: Last week, 26-year-old Lazaro Manuel Arencibia was shot in the abdomen at a…

Charles Kinsey, the latest unarmed African American man to be shot by a police officer, sued North Miami police this week after a cop’s bullet tore a hole through his leg on July 18. Video footage of Kinsey lying on the ground with his hands up in the air, pleading…

During next year’s Memorial Day weekend, Miami Beach will return to segregation days, when black people weren’t allowed to stay in the city’s hotels and had to leave by sundown. As Miami New Times staff writer Jessica Weiss first reported in May, the city plans for 2017 an air and…

Less than a week after five Dallas law enforcement officers were killed by a lunatic gunman, the nation is again reeling from a deadly confrontation between cops and an ex-military extremist. This past Sunday, former Marine Gavin Long gunned down three officers in Baton Rouge, a city on edge after…

In the past two weeks, Miami Beach politicians and some residents have lost their minds over plans to open a club called King of Diamonds on Ocean Drive, the main drag of South Florida tourism. Race may or may not be what’s causing the uproar. In Miami Gardens, there’s a…

Dwyane Wade bolting for Chicago is Pat Riley’s biggest fuck-up as Miami Heat president. If the franchise were one of team owner Micky Arison’s cruise ships, it would be one of those boats in which everybody gets the shits from food poisoning. Pat should have put some respect on Wade’s…

Last week, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas proved that black people in positions of power can be African Americans’ worst enemies. He wrote the majority opinion in a 5-to-3 decision in a case that will allow police officers to use evidence obtained after illegal stops, as long as the…

The Miami-Dade judicial candidates on the ballot in August demonstrate how black people are still fighting for equality in this county. Four of the five Anglo and Hispanic judges running for reelection are unopposed, but the only two black judges have drawn challengers who hope their Hispanic surnames are enough…

The 2016 presidential race has been a crazy, unpredictable mess. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are driving both Republican and Democratic party leaders insane. At this point, it wouldn’t surprise me to see this pair join forces. Sound crazy? A Trump-Sanders ticket is not that far-fetched. These guys have many…

For more than a decade, African-American tourists have returned to Miami Beach for Memorial Day weekend even though it becomes a military green zone. Every business, from the valet parking stands to the hotels, gouges those who visit and makes them feel unwelcome. Past and present city leaders have shown…

This past April 23, Mark Walton, a 19-year-old University of Miami running back, was arrested for drunk driving after he failed road sobriety and Breathalyzer tests. Miami Police may have targeted Walton, local media outlets report. The former Booker T. Washington High star is suspended indefinitely from playing for the…

Imagine if Mick Jagger left the Rolling Stones but he wasn’t allowed to sing any of the band’s songs or say he had been part of one of rock’s greatest acts. What if Dr. Dre and Ice Cube couldn’t call themselves former N.W.A. members or perform the work that skyrocketed…

Miami-Dade commissioners will decide soon whether to hire condo king the Related Group to redevelop the county’s oldest public housing project, Liberty Square. But one county commish, Audrey Edmonson, is going to bat for Atlantic Pacific Communities, the firm that ended up in second place. Last week, Edmonson claimed she…

Miami Beach Commissioner Michael Grieco recently cast a deciding vote against hosting Fidel Castro’s Cuban consulate in Miami Beach. Now Grieco is acting like a dictator himself. Two weekends ago, the commissioner lost it over the giant mess left behind by people who participated in the annual Floatopia. In front…

The number of murdered children in Miami’s African-American communities continues to climb. Seven-year-old Amiere Castro was killed in a drive-by. Six-year-old King Carter was shot on his way to buy candy. And so far this year, 11 Dade teenagers have been murdered with guns. Meanwhile, adults are clueless about how…

For more than a year, Miami-Dade school board member Raquel Regalado has been positioning herself as the antidote to the county’s current mayor, Carlos Gimenez. Regalado recently came out against Gimenez’s multimillion-dollar bailout of the Frost Science Museum and chided commissioners for it: “What are we telling our kids if…