This week, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High returned to school — to the hallways and classrooms where they had watched people die, where many of them thought they, too, would probably die. It’s impossible to imagine what that place must feel like to them now, once an average part of everyday life, now something wholly different.
Recently, rumors have swirled that the Miami Dolphins want to trade Jarvis Landry in order to jump into the first five picks of April’s NFL draft so they can snatch an elite-quarterback prospect. That would raise an obvious question: Uh, so what’s up with Ryan Tannehill? Head coach Adam Gase publicly backed…
Miami learned today what a difference it can make when you show someone you appreciate their work. Less than 24 hours ago, it seemed Alberto Carvalho would leave sunny Miami-Dade for the bright lights and cold days of New York City. Reports that the Miami-Dade County Public Schools chief had accepted…
Ahead of this year’s Oscars, we look into what the film’s shocking victory has meant for black films, LGBTQ films, and Miami.
Acoustic shows are rare in Miami. The DJ is king, and jazz nights are plentiful. But performances with just a musician and his or her instrument of choice are hard to come by.
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.
Last week, Nikolas Cruz took an AR-15 to Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and opened fire. He attacked students and faculty alike, and when the day was done, he’d left 17 dead.
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.
After Donald Trump was elected to the presidency, Americans planned and executed one of the largest public demonstrations since the Vietnam War. When the White House tried to enforce a racist travel ban, Americans gathered with signs and chants in airports. When unarmed people of color are murdered by police officers…
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…
The NBA trade deadline is this Thursday, February 8, and teams have reportedly seen the Miami Heat come up on their caller ID with increasingly regularity as the team explores all options to improve itself. With nearly zero salary-cap space, a shortage of draft picks, and a roster full of players that other teams aren’t exactly tripping over one another to acquire, the Heat has limited assets at its disposal in trade talks.
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.
There’s nothing wrong when other states say they’re proud of their beaches or they want to protect them from the dangers of offshore drilling. But when they start saying their beaches are the same as Florida’s beaches and saying there’s nothing about our beaches that makes them more special, somebody needs to tell those people it’s time to go to bed — because our beaches are better.
