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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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Commissioners in Boynton Beach this week unanimously repealed three outdated city ordinances that established racially segregated residential areas.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.
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West Palm Beach's free monthly art series called "Let's Vibe" aims to gather more people in outdoor public spaces and build community in third spaces.
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As hometown favorite Devin Hester gets picked for the Hall of Fame, WLRN speaks to the announcer who narrated one of the most memorable moment in Super Bowl history: when he returned the opening kickoff for a touchdown in Super Bowl 41 in Miami.
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A community gathering at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach places a spotlight on Chinese culture and Lunar New Year celebrations.
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Amid national outcry, the Guatemala Maya Center in Lake Worth Beach continues its effort to help release an indigenous Guatemalan teen farmer who is charged in the death of a St. Johns County police officer who died of a heart attack shortly after a physical struggle to detain the farmer.
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A group of residents in Wellington are intensifying their call to oust Village's mayor and council over a luxury housing proposal in the protected preserve.