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  • Miami Beach Says No to Race-Based Hair Discrimination

    “The new ordinance applies in cases where hair is commonly associated with a particular race or national origin, such as Black communities.”

  • Michelle Obama’s 53-Year-Old Beach Body Is #Goals

    The color white looks great on black skin, and former first lady Michelle Obama more than proved the point by recently stepping out, dressed in all white and MILFing like a mug stunting like an alluring angel in her beach ensemble. The 53-year-old mother of two put many of us to shame as she and…

  • Miami Beach, Fla., Police Fatally Shoot 22-Year-Old University Student Accused of Running Over Officer

    A Temple University student was shot dead by Miami Beach, Fla., police after authorities say she slammed her car into an officer Sunday night. Cariann Denise Hithon was in South Florida celebrating her 22nd birthday when she was killed, NBC 10 reports. According to the report, Hithon was driving a black BMW when she crashed…

  • Color of Climate: Meet a Power Player in Miami’s Fight Against Climate Gentrification

    Valencia Gunder loves the 305. However, there’s one nickname she says she’s never used for her hometown of Miami—the Magic City. Though she’s lived there her whole life, the 33-year-old resident of Liberty City, a predominantly black and working-class neighborhood in northwest Miami, told The Root, “Maybe where I grew up at, it was never…

  • Color of Climate: Is Climate Change Gentrifying Miami’s Black Neighborhoods?

    Paulette Richards has lived in Liberty City for almost 40 years. In that time, the 57-year-old community organizer has seen some things in the close-knit and vibrant historically black community, located in northwest Miami-Dade County. She’s seen young mothers struggle to feed their babies despite working multiple jobs. She’s seen kids suffering because of a…

  • College-Bound 19-Year-Old Fatally Shot During Craigslist Transaction 

    A Florida 19-year-old who recently graduated from high school and had earned a scholarship to play college football in California was shot and killed last week during a Craigslist transaction. Brian Brown had graduated just two weeks ago from North Miami Beach Senior High School, where he was a standout on the football team, and…

  • NYC Anti-Violence Activist Shot Dead in Fla.

    Lavon Walker, 30, an anti-violence activist, died at a hospital after being shot Sunday on a street corner in Miami Beach, CBS News reports. The incident took place near the popular Miami Beach street Ocean Drive right before 7 a.m. Three suspects were seen in a surveillance video speeding away from the scene of the shooting…

  • Fla. Man Dies Saving Wife From Rip Current Off Miami Beach 

    A Florida woman says that her husband drowned while trying to save her from a rip current off Miami Beach over the weekend, WINK News reports. “He did the most amazing thing in the world that he gave his life for me,” Kendra Smith said of her husband, 34-year-old Sherrod Whittington. “I appreciate that, I really do,…