Opinion & Commentary

Last month, cops and federal agents were quick to arrest rapper Kodak Black for probation violation and gun-related charges after he posted photos of himself brandishing weapons on social media. Meanwhile, Nikolas Cruz — the Parkland shooter who killed 17 innocent people — posted images of himself with weapons and also made comments about killing people. Even when someone who knew Cruz contacted the FBI to stop him, nothing happened.

Black Panther is an epic that every African-American must see. I never thought I’d see a Hollywood movie that goes over the heads of white people, but the latest Marvel film does the trick. Black Panther speaks in a code only black revolutionary minds can understand.

Marco Rubio was still in his first year as a senator when a madman with an assault rifle murdered 20 schoolchildren and six teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary. After the Miami Herald pressed him for a response, he said he hoped to “take a break from the politics of shooting for a few days to mourn.”

For those who have been too busy working in a coal mine or filming an episode of Deadliest Catch over the past week to keep up on local sports news, let’s get you up to speed: Dwyane Wade is once again a member of the Miami Heat.

For months, Miami Republican Congressman Carlos Curbelo has insisted that any federal budget bill must include help for the millions of Dreamers — undocumented immigrants brought to America as children — before their legal protection under President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) plan ends early next month.

Everywhere you turn in Miami, gentrification is in full swing. Real estate prices are booming in Allapattah, Brownsville, Little Haiti, Liberty City, and Overtown as the same developers who bought up and transformed South Beach and Wynwood set their sights on new territories to exploit. Here’s how it…

For all Wade has done for the franchise, he deserves to return to the Miami Heat, but on the Miami Heat’s terms. If he agrees to those terms, it would seem only right that a reunion take place next season while Wade still has some playing days left in him.

In a sane, moral, or just world, Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran would be forced to resign for the advertisement his political action committee just released. It’s that bad. Honestly, he should resign anyway. The ad is basically a ripoff of D.W. Griffith’s 1915 pro-Ku Klux Klan film Birth of a Nation…

The fútbol fanatics who packed the Knight Concert Hall Monday afternoon primed for a big fiesta starring David Beckham and his best political and business buds got just what they wanted. But the hundreds of reporters and photographers from around the world who came hoping for more concrete info about his planned Major League Soccer team might as well have stayed home and watched some old Real Madrid highlights.

Democrats haven’t had much to celebrate in South Florida recently, but they’re pretty sure they can gain back a Congressional seat this fall with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen retiring from a heavily blue district. Among the cluster of eight candidates slugging it out in the primary, there are some legitimately good options…

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez once again has proven he doesn’t care about African-Americans unless he needs our vote. The county mayor was a no-show at a January 16 community meeting to address the epic gun violence that is plaguing Northwest Miami-Dade, home to a majority of the county’s black residents…

More than a 120 people gathered last night at the Greater Holy Cross Missionary Baptist Church on NW 93rd Terrace to solve the problem of gun violence in Miami’s black neighborhoods. Neither Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez nor the county’s police director, Juan Perez, attended.

Last week, armored vehicles, two helicopters, and more than 40 officers picked up a notorious cocaine-era assassin who was first arrested a quarter-century ago after police shot and missed more than 130 times.

South Florida law enforcement has put a bull’s-eye on the Bikes Up, Guns Down movement that will take over local streets and highways this Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Gun-toting thugs are besieging Miami-Dade’s inner-city neighborhoods, and county cops are missing in action. Since early December, more than a dozen people, including children, have been shot in unincorporated parts of Northwest Miami-Dade. Five of the victims are dead. On January 3, two others were fatally gunned down in Liberty City and Little Haiti.

There was a brief period, a little more than a year ago, when it seemed Boca Raton’s multibillion-dollar private-prison juggernaut, the GEO Group, might go extinct. The Obama administration had just dealt a huge blow to  GEO, which is among the nation’s largest private managers of prisons…

It’s 2018, and Donald Trump is still president of the United States. Let that fester for a minute. But the odds are against the least popular commander-in-chief of all time making it through his second year. As we enter the new year, here are my predictions on Trump and other…

As we meditate on what Miami’s culinary ecosystem might yield in the coming year, we are at the same time forced to look back at everything it has accomplished in recent years.