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Ryan NicolJune 25, 2018

Hurricane Irma hit Florida last year as a Category Four hurricane and caused billions of dollars worth of damage in South Florida. But the Miami City Commission last month voted to bring “Hurricane Formula One” to the streets of Miami every year for the next ten years. Miami’s city manager is now negotiating with Formula […]

Danny McAuliffeMarch 14, 2018

Of the 67 counties in the Sunshine State, St. Johns County is the healthiest and Union County is the least healthy. The rankings are included in a new research report released Wednesday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Health rankings were determined by “how long people live and […]

Associated PressNovember 27, 2015

Ayauna King-Baker loved Ben Carson‘s “Gifted Hands” memoir so much that she made her daughter Shaliya read it. So when Carson showed up in town to sign copies of his new book, King-Baker dragged the giggly 13-year-old along to the bookstore so they could both meet him. To King-Baker, Carson’s “up-by-your bootstraps” life story makes […]

Peter SchorschSeptember 23, 2015

Earlier this year, a Florida GOP lawmaker made an immature, offensive, possibly racist comment on Twitter about two black legislators. Meanwhile, another Florida GOP lawmaker told a gathering of Republican activists that the key to defeating Corrine Brown, a black Jacksonville Democrat, was to boost the number of black prisoners in her north Florida congressional district. Guess which […]

Guest AuthorMay 5, 2015

The 2015 Major League Baseball Racial and Gender Report Card recently released by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport shows the league had an A on the issue of racial hiring practices, a C/C+ for gender hiring practices and an overall grade of B. Are we playing fair when it comes to sports? Does […]

Guest AuthorMay 29, 2014

I’ve been wearing the clothes of a scary thug for 40 years and I didn’t even know it. I’m talking about the hoodie, the low-cost hooded jacket that intimidates both neighborhood vigilante George Zimmerman and business tycoon Mark Cuban alike. It all depends on where you get your fashion sense, I guess. My first hoodie […]

Tag: race

Questions linger as ‘Hurricane Formula One’ bears down on Miami

St. Johns ranked healthiest county in Florida

As many African-American see it, there are 2 Ben Carsons

Y’all better give Janet Adkins as much sh*t as you did Matt Gaetz

Richard Lapchick: Does Major League Baseball look like America?

Mark O’Brien: Mark Cuban’s comment about hoodies is revealing