Wilkine Brutus
Palm Beach County ReporterWilkine Brutus is the Palm Beach County Reporter for WLRN. The award-winning journalist produces stories on topics surrounding local news, culture, art, politics and current affairs.
Brutus and his colleagues are the recipients of the 2021 National Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence, the first time the station has won the award at the national level.
Before joining WLRN, Brutus worked as a Digital Reporter for the Palm Beach Post, producing print and video-based profiles of artists and entrepreneurs in Palm Beach County. Prior to that, he was an educator and freelance journalist who had amassed millions of views on his YouTube channel during his four-year stint in South Korea.
He's the host of "A Boat A Voyage," a 5-episode podcast that explores his Haitian mother’s account of her 1980s refugee experience in Miami.
Brutus is a guest faculty member at the Poynter Institute and serves as a mentor for SXSW’s Media & Journalism program. He earned his bachelor's degree in Multimedia Studies from Florida Atlantic University.
Work and guest appearances include PBS NewsHour, NPR and WBUR's Here & Now, PRX's The World, Philadelphia Inquirer, WPTV NewsChannel 5, WUCF TV PBS, Ebony Magazine, Okayafrica, L’Union Suite, and other media outlets.
Contact Wilkine at wbrutus@wlrnnews.org
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Dr. Joaquín García High School, the newest public high school in Palm Beach County, is using art to celebrate the legacy of its namesake — an openly gay Hispanic businessman and community advocate who died in 2021.
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Nonprofits in Miami are struggling to deliver aid to Haiti and they worry refugees from the country won't be welcome in Florida.
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As the political and economic conditions worsen in Haiti, Haitian leaders urge Florida officials to support nonprofits on the ground and address root cause of migration from the country.
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Across Palm Beach County, voters not only cast ballots on the Republican presidential primary, they also decided on mayors, commissioners and some referendum questions affecting their communities. Here are the key results from West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Riviera Beach, Delray Beach Wellington and other municipalities.
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Local elections are taking place on March 19 in 23 of Palm Beach County’s 39 municipalities, from incorporated villages and small towns to major cities like West Palm Beach and Riviera Beach. Multiple local seats are up for grabs, while voters will also decide several ballot questions.
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A new pop-up exhibit in Riviera Beach displays nuanced depictions of Black people and raises questions about art and community gatherings.
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An indigenous Guatemalan teen accused in the death of a St. Johns County police sergeant has been cleared of any wrongdoing. Prosecutors announced they were dropping an aggravated manslaughter case against Virgilio Aguilar-Mendez.
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County leaders this week declined to bring to voters the prospect of renewing the tax, which funded infrastructure projects. They favored instead investment in transportation — potentially via another surtax.
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Ericka Squire, dancer and founder of nonprofit Natural Movers Foundation, will mark Black History Month with a one-of-a-kind day of dance event at the Kravis Centre for the Performing Arts, in West Palm Beach.
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Commissioners in Boynton Beach this week unanimously repealed three outdated city ordinances that established racially segregated residential areas.
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A social club for people of Hungarian descent in Palm Beach County is celebrating six decades of Hungarian culture from refugees who fled communism. And now the members want to open their doors to people of different backgrounds.