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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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.
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Nearly seven decades after it first opened its doors, Roosevelt High is being redone and renamed the Historic Roosevelt Full Service Center. When completed, it will include renovated space for adult education classes, a Black history museum and library. The school buildings had been vacant for more than a decade.
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After years of planning and logistical mishaps, Tri-Rail expands into downtown Miami. The new service begins Saturday.
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An exchange program has resumed following a pandemic break, with the first batch of high school students from Kyoto arriving shortly after a deadly earthquake struck Japan. At the Mirokami Gardens, they spoke of the experience and their concerns for their families.
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After two years of public input, Delray Beach commissioners are considering a $115-million project to improve the city's network of pedestrian sidewalks and bicycle lanes.
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The Path to College fellowship program in Lake Worth Beach is building Catapult, a new after-school center to help high-achieving students living below or at the poverty line gain access to top tier colleges and universities.
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Music festivals, art shows, performances and the works. A new economic impact study points to arts and culture offerings in the Palm Beaches as a major money-maker — hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity and thousands of jobs.
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A year-long tribute to the hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants arriving in South Florida over the last 50 years was concluded with a moving ceremony in Little Haiti this week, at a pivotal time for the Biden humanitarian migrant parole program.
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Despite favorable performance reviews from the mayor and at least one commissioner, Carmen Davis has been removed from her post. The city's public works director, Jamie Brown, is expected to serve as interim city manager — the third person to occupy the role in three years.
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The Palm Beach Board of County Commissioners have approved two bonds to help pay for two major affordable rental housing developments: One specifically for qualified veterans and another aimed at low-income residents.
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For many Black people, Black hair isn’t just a hairstyle — it’s an act of resistance from various levels of race-based discrimination at workplaces, schools, and other social settings. It's also an art form.