Federal agents used limited parking outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Miramar as a pretext to racially profile drivers earlier today, activists say.
Over the next four days, black journalists, media executives, and celebrities are taking over for the annual National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair. The main topic of discussion should be about establishing our own news network that shows African-Americans who keep it real and tell the whole truth about the systemic racism that continues oppressing people of color.
Under constant international pressure for the hellish conditions they helped create in Venezuela, members of the regime of strongman Nicolás Maduro never pass up an opportunity to point out the flaws of nations criticizing them.
In January, Americans for Immigrant Justice — one of the most prominent immigrant-rights activist and legal groups in Florida — filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the federal government for what sounded, at least at the time, like basic information.
Tomorrow night marks the beginning of a shiny new season of Miami Dolphins football. The home team will take on the Atlanta Falcons at 7:30 at Hard Rock Stadium. Preseason or not, it feels good to look forward to an actual game.
Miami Dade College officials are working on new classes and a certificate program that’ll prepare students for jobs in the medical marijuana industry. But, administrators stress, they won’t be teaching kids how to grow weed.
A few months ago, Jennifer Diaz rented a condo for her 64-year-old mother in Doral. She had heard there was a garbage dump nearby, but for the price, she thought it would be worth it. When she moved her mother in, neither of them expected to be next-door neighbors with “Mount Trashmore” — the Medley Landfill.
At the time they were written, the words were just one teenager’s thoughts about Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric. Joaquin Oliver, an outgoing and athletic 17-year-old student whose parents brought him from troubled Venezuela for safe harbor in America when he was a toddler, let his feelings flow.
City Girls are one of 2019’s breakout hip-hop acts. After they were featured on Drake’s recent hit “In My Feelings,” the group’s subsequent singles — “Twerk,” featuring Cardi B, and “Act Up” — have essentially become the biggest songs of the year not named “Old Town Road.”
As Floridians continue to ponder the idea of a not-so-distant future in which weed is legal, Democratic state Rep. Shevrin Jones has moved for more sudden action. Yesterday he introduced a bill that would decriminalize possession of certain quantities of marijuana in Florida.
Saturday morning, a white-supremacist terrorist walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, sprayed the building with bullets, and killed 22 people while injuring 25 others. The shooter left a manifesto online stating he targeted the Walmart because he hates immigrants and wanted to kill as many as possible.
The morning of June 20, Michael Morell woke up as he did every weekday, when his alarm clock rang at 6. The 34-year-old father of two sat up and reached over to his bedside table to hit snooze. But when he attempted to lie back down, his muscles became rigid, leaving him frozen in a sitting position.
Cesar Sayoc, the pro-Trump Miami resident who briefly terrorized the nation by sending a series of mail bombs to prominent Democrats last year, was sentenced to 20 years in prison today in Manhattan federal court, according to multiple news outlets.
In exchange for a public park, Miami Beach amended its city code last week to allow real-estate developers to build a luxury condo and hotel where a parking lot currently resides on Ocean Terrace.
Last week in this space, we let you know about a study that showed Miami Dolphins fans curse more than almost all others in the NFL. It was quite an achievement, really. This week, we learn that Heat fans go harder than all others on game night and feel it the next morning.
In a cramped studio inside Florida International University’s student union, two friends sit side-by-side in swiveling office chairs and sidle up to the microphone. Six spotlights radiate from above as one of them presses the “record” button.
Wayne Messam is, for reasons that are difficult to explain, still running for president. When he announced his run, the mayor of tiny Miramar, Florida, tried to position himself as a Pete Buttigieg-style outsider, the sort of political newcomer who wouldn’t be indebted to Washington elites and could spout tough truths on the campaign trail.
State Sen. Joe Gruters, the chair of the Florida Republican Party, announced yesterday that he’s planning an immigration tour to ask would-be voters what new policies they want the all-powerful Florida GOP to enact in the coming years.
The court battle over Florida’s abortion waiting period has been ongoing ever since state legislators passed House Bill 633 in 2015, requiring women to wait 24 hours after meeting with their doctor before having an abortion.
We all know Miami will be underwater sooner or later. But while some folks are plotting how to spend their Atlantean retirement down here, others are asking the all-important question: How much is it gonna cost?
Miramar Mayor Wayne Messam wanted to be the Democrats’ next Pete Buttigieg — a long-shot, small-town mayor who could quote-unquote “tell it like it is” and talk his way into becoming president. But Messam’s bid is failing horribly.
If you’ve spent any real time in Miami, chances are you already know this. But now, there’s a study to back up your own personal research — Miami Dolphins fans like to use profanity, and they do so more than almost any other fan base in the NFL.
