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Thirty-five years ago, Miami's Liberty City was smoldering -- flames leapt from the shells of cars while people looted businesses.Eighteen people died,…
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Bereatha Howard is having a crisis of the sole.The left half of her treasured pair of black Calvin Kleins has ripped apart at the seams. And so she she is…
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There’s an interesting juxtaposition happening in South Florida during the last week of Black History Month.On one hand, there are five town hall or panel…
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In the city of Opa-locka, a colorful park stands where liquor bottles and trash once collected in an empty lot.New and chic affordable housing is popping…
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Much has been written about the close bonds forged between Jews and African-Americans in Miami in the 1950s at the start of the civil rights movement. But…
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Tenants who live in a Liberty City apartment building with leaky ceilings, moldy walls and toilets that don’t flush protested Friday morning to get the…
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Right now, there's a national discussion happening around race and how police treat black men. But what happens to that conversation when you pair being a…
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On Thursday night in Overtown, artist DobaAfolabi was showing his work at the Art Africa show.Afolabi is from Nigeria. He used to live in Miami, but left…
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Nora Chipaumire is in the middle of a dance workshop at the Kendall Campus of Miami Dade College.She asks about 12 dance students of different races to…
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Amidst all the new and cutting-edge art on display at Art Basel and surrounding fairs, an exhibition of late painter Purvis Young’s work is a…
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Hermana Richardson is returning to the Liberty City street where her son and his best friend were murdered.It’s been three months since one of the worst…
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Sheila McNeil watched the television newscasts from her Overtown apartment with a deep pain in her gut.The shooting death of unarmed 18-year-old Michael…