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January 14, 2024 Mara Shlackman visits The Everglades with family.

Michael Anderson and Fabián Cárdenas are the filmmakers behind WLRN TV’s latest documentary Never Drop the Ball. They told us how the Negro Leagues helped desegregate baseball — and America.

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Guest host Kate Payne is joined by the local group The Latin Divos. The Cuban trio takes Latin pop, traditional opera and timeless classics and makes them their own.

October 1, 2023 Jane Auerback discovers a little bit about her mother's history.

October 15, 2023 - Professional Storyteller Megan Wells with a young eagle's story.

October 7, 2023 - Beatriz Alcantara's artwork reflects her culture.

October 22, 2023 - Jazmin Mezux learns a business lesson.

October 29, 2023 - Lee Makin still has some wonderful athletic skills.

Wildlife photographer and Zoo Miami’s “Goodwill Ambassador," Ron Magill joins us to talk about new book The Pride of a Lion.

John Miller is an associate professor of glass at Illinois State University. His art show “Order Up! The Pop Art of John Miller” is now at the Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami. We talk about diner culture, which inspired the larger-than-life glass pieces.

December 3, 2023 Isabella Martins-Simonsen gets to know her brother a little bit better.

South Florida journalist Brittany Wallman, who won a 2019 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Parkland school shooting for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, is now working as an investigative journalist for the Miami Herald.

This week on The Florida Roundup, we talked about the proposed amendment to shift to partisan school board races in Florida with State Representative Spencer Roach (03:21) and FAU associate professor Meredith Mountford (12:29). Then, we discussed the push to get abortion rights on the 2024 ballot with the president of Women’s Voices of SW Florida (20:09). And later, we heard from a spokesperson for the campaign to put recreational marijuana up to a vote (32:00). Plus, we also caught up on some recent health (37:19) and environmental news stories from across the state (44:26).

On the South Florida Roundup, we close out 2023 by looking at how tough the year was for South Florida’s most critical commodity: its environment. And that includes the Everglades, whose revival feels dangerously dormant (01:03). We also examine the face and the future of the Palestinians, both in Gaza and here, amid the brutal Israel-Hamas war (17:58). And we discuss new polls that suggest President Biden and the Democrats are in more trouble with Latino voters next year than they thought (34:00).

In the first show of 2024, we discuss WLRN's investigation into Miami's hiring of the city manager’s wife for office remodeling. We look at a proposal to place homeless seniors and veterans into transitional housing in Cutler Bay that is being met with resistance (18:37). And we examine President Biden’s decision to free Venezuela’s alleged corruption mastermind, Alex Saab, from his Miami jail cell (35:29).

December 23, 2023 Preston Darling is decided it is time for a change.

December 31, 2023 Author of "Labeled: Ward of the State", Kenisha Anthony works to improve the foster care system.

January 7, 2024 Jorge Morell decides to teach his young team a lesson.

You might recognize her from the show “Wait wait…Don’t Tell Me.” Author and comedian Paula Poundstone has jokes! And she shares them with us before her performance at The Parker in Fort Lauderdale on Friday, January 26.