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Comedian Gadiel del Orbe got his start making viral videos for Buzzfeed. He focused on the Latino community, specifically making comedy para sus domincanos. He tells us how he went from being the funny guy on a Navy aircraft carrier to being that funny guy on YouTube.

The search for his mother brought Jessie Wooden to the Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery in Brownsville. It’s an all-Black cemetery built at a time when South Florida was segregated in life and death.

South Florida native Kenneth A. Jessell is the president of Florida International University. He tells us how he went from being the first in his family to go to college to leading FIU.

This week on The Florida Roundup we discussed money and medicine, a big change is coming for Medicare and prescription drugs. For the first time, the government health system will negotiate the prices of 10 common medicines. We speak with the CMS' Director of Medicare (03:45) and the VP Pharmacy for CareMax (13:08) as well as a professor of health management (21:50). Plus, we take a look at the latest in education news (38:00) and hear about how a Florida woman and her granddaughter made history this month – six decades apart (48:08).

Siham Inshassi is a recipient of this year’s Emerging Writer Fellowship from the Miami Book Fair. She's writing her first novel and she joins us to talk about how she’s honing her voice in Miami.

This week on the South Florida Roundup we discussed a proposal to bring speed enforcement cameras to school zones in Miami-Dade County (06:49), the big things to have your eyes on for the coming fiscal year across South Florida (19:20) and a court order that will block thousands of recently arrived Cubans from getting permanent residency in the U.S. after one year and one day (37:56).

Harry and Michelle Coleman went from journalists to the kitchen. Their new smokehouse doesn't make your usual barbecue, they've created Miami barbecue. They tell us about their brisket rubbed with ground espresso, ribs glazed with guava-chili sauce and the smoked flan.

Winsome Bingham's new book The Walk tells the story of a woman taking her granddaughter to knock on doors in their neighborhood to get out the vote. Her children's books teach kids important lessons about family, community and civic action.

The Miami Herald's new executive editor, Alex Mena, started working at the paper when he was 19 years old. He's now the first immigrant in his position.

Comedian and actor Dale Elliott Jr. has a big following on social media for his comedy sketches and stories that depict Caribbean families and culture.

Yvonne Lee Odom has had a 45-year teaching career in Delray Beach, she desegregated Palm Beach County schools as a 15-year-old high school sophomore and is tennis star Coco Gauff’s grandmother.

This week on the South Florida Roundup we discussed the city of Miami's decision to spend millions of dollars on a half dozen homes as part of their effort to create more affordable housing (01:03); Broward County finding 'forever chemicals' in their water (19:24); and the Biden Administration's decision to extend and redesignate temporary protections for Venezuelans (41:04).

Jason Seife's first solo show, “Coming to Fruition," is at the Perez Art Museum Miami. His style honors his Cuban and Syrian parents.

Laura McDermott Matheric, Coconut Creek’s first poet laureate, talks about being inspired by her community of 'Creekers' and how several learning disorders changed her life's trajectory from business to the arts.

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This week on The Florida Roundup, we take a look back at Hurricane Ian one year later with reporting from Florida Public Radio member stations (01:05). Plus, we look at what the state’s minimum wage increase with FIU’s Dr. Maria Ilcheva (22:21) and then WUSF’s Gabriella Paul (30:18). And later, fact-checking Florida claims in the latest GOP Debate with PolitiFact’s Samantha Putterman (37:54).

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Roberto Carlos Cruz Garcia is the author behind "Sweet Boy: The Unintentional Offender." Roberto has ADHD and he’s on the Autism spectrum. But as a kid, he was undiagnosed — and this made him the sweet boy who would sometimes say the wrong thing at the wrong time and that became the inspiration for the book.

May 28, 2023 Susan Forma had a great family outing planned but it was not meant to be.

June 4, 2023 Nick Boyd tells of an unlikely championship.