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Photographer, historian and professor Deborah Willis is concluding her residency at the museum with a talk on fashion and photography on Sunday. She spoke with WLRN about her life's inspirations and how she became one of the leading historians of African American photography.
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Miami Herald
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NEWS
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Stream the full WLRN special, Detention by Design Live. As Cuban and Haitian migrants once again land battered boats in Florida in large numbers, experts and a studio audience joined Danny Rivero — host of the Detention By Design podcast — on Friday for a timely discussion. -
County election supervisors say the new restrictions will create significant election reporting delays and a slew of costs for local election offices, and could disenfranchise large numbers of voters.
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The defendants allegedly took part in a scam that sold more than 7,600 fraudulent nursing degree diplomas from three Florida-based nursing schools, according to recently unsealed federal indictments.
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Native seeds are crucial for land restoration efforts after disasters, which will grow more extreme as climate change worsens. "Time is of the essence" to bank sufficient seeds, a new report says.
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Humans are generating vast amounts of data each day— and we're running out of storage space. Molecular biologist Dina Zielinski discusses a solution that can pack tons of data into a tiny space: DNA.
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"Population decline" is a mild way to describe what could be a global demographic crisis, according to experts. But while migration may be the obvious solution, politics could get in the way.
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Long criticized as discriminatory, the policy has prevented many gay and bisexual men from donating blood. The Food and Drug Administration revealed a draft of its new approach on Friday.
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Two former South Florida police officers turned themselves in to face felony charges over the beating of a homeless man who had been drinking outside a shopping center last month.
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A measure to give nearly every K-12 student in Florida access to a stipend for private school or education programs is moving through the legislature.
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Customers began wondering why small bottles of Fireball were being sold in places that typically don't sell liquor in many states, such as gas stations and grocery stores.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a new law and order agenda, that includes a proposal to expand the death penalty to certain sex crimes.
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Mayor Daniella Levine Cava unveiled her plans for 2023, focusing her goals on curbing gun violence, improving public transportation, boosting the affordable housing supply and creating a $9 million fund to help solve pressing community issues.
Sundial
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Ricardo Rios/Courtesy of Paquito D’RiveraLegendary musician Paquito D’Rivera joins WLRN's Carlos Frías on Sundial to talk about his illustrious career, his escape from Cuba and why he recently donated his archives to the University of Miami. -
Carl Juste/Miami HeraldSyndicated humor writer Dave Barry joins WLRN's Carlos Frías on Sundial to talk about his upcoming book, Swamp Story, which features the oddities of swamp culture and TikTok. They also discuss his life growing up and how his family, especially his mother, influenced his unique sense of humor.
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