Wilkine Brutus
ReporterWilkine Brutus is a multimedia journalist for WLRN, South Florida's NPR, and a member of Washington Post/Poynter Institute’s 2019 Leadership Academy. A former Digital Reporter for The Palm Beach Post, Brutus produces enterprise stories on topics surrounding people, community innovation, entrepreneurship, art, culture, and current affairs.
Brutus is also the podcast host of A Boat A Voyage, a 5-episode journey inside the mind of his Haitian mother's refugee experience. After amassing millions of views on his YouTube channel, particularly during his 5-year stint in South Korea, he was eventually invited to speak at Twitter Headquarters for Scripps Howard School's symposium on digital media, alongside Google Ventures, Bloomberg, Ebony Magazine, and LinkedIn. He's also a 2018 member of Poynter Institute's Power of Diverse Voices. And he was a scheduled speaker at SXSW 2020 for the Media & Journalism convergence track.
In 2016, he was the star of an international viral video about the nature of human touch; republished by the New York Post, the video, shot in Jeju Island, South Korea, currently sits at 6 million views on Facebook. The video encapsulated his "human interconnectedness" theme on his YouTube channel.
Other appearances include the Philadelphia Inquirer, WHYY(NPR affiliate), WPTV NewsChannel 5, the Karen Hunter Show on SiriusXM, The Decision podcast with Alex Kapelman, MTV, BET, Ebony Magazine, Miami New Times, Okayafrica, Okayplayer, Complex, L'Union Suite, and other media outlets.
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The Caridad Center in Boynton Beach is a free medical clinic that treats the migrant farmworkers who harvest produce from the fields of Palm Beach County. -
"That’s really hard with memory care folks, and, you know, trying to keep a mask on them is very, very difficult."
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The Guatemalan-Maya Center says there is a 30% COVID-19 infection rate among 600 agricultural workers and families.
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Seniors in Palm Beach County are desperate for the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Palm Beach County officials want state leaders to investigate the mismanagement of COVID-19 vaccines.
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The Palm Beach County school district is encouraging parents of students who are struggling with distance learning to send their child to in-person instruction as soon as possible. The process won't be easy as COVID-19 cases continue to spike.
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There is no evidence to support the claim that President Donald Trump won re-election. Courts across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have rejected the GOP’s post-election challenges.
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People who live in Belle Glade, and surrounding rural areas where sugarcane burning takes place, have been worried about health hazards for a long time — they say now, with the pandemic, they're even more concerned about exposure to the smoke.
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"We launched the program because of the lack of coverage that the Black community was receiving from the FAU's official student newspaper."
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“A lot of people would think that the worst thing for a woman to go through would be sexual violence, but I thought that the worst thing would be to know that the people who were best positioned to save you, didn't.”
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Speaking at a commission meeting Tuesday, Dr. Alina Alonso — the county's health director — said the 5% daily positivity rate is the lowest it's been for about 3 weeks.
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Frontline workers at five Florida hospitals, including medical centers in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, will receive the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines — Palm Beach County was left off the initial list.
