miami gardens
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6 Months After Kneeling on a Black Woman’s Neck and Tasing Her Belly, Miami-Area Officer Faces Battery Charges
A former Miami Gardens police officer has been charged with four counts of official misconduct and two counts of battery stemming from a January incident where he knelt on a Black woman’s neck and stunned her twice with a Taser during an unlawful arrest. As NBC News reports, Jordy Yanes Martel turned himself in on…
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Sybrina Fulton, Mother of Trayvon Martin, Is Running for Miami-Dade County Commission [Corrected]
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen who was gunned down by racist coward George Zimmerman in Florida in 2012, is running for office in Miami-Dade County. Fulton confirmed Saturday in a statement that she’ll be putting her name in for a chance at a spot on the County Commission. “Since…
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Anita Baker Slayed My Life, Fantasia Inspired an Altar Call and Trick Daddy Was King at Jazz in the Gardens Music Festival [Updated]
Updated, June 18, 2018 8:30 a.m.: The Root was a media sponsor of this event. “It’s the world’s biggest outdoor house party!” Kid from ’90s rap duo Kid ’n Play said when I caught the icons backstage at the Jazz in the Gardens Music Festival this past weekend. The two were part of the festival’s…
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I’m Seeing Anita Baker, Y’all, and You Can, Too, at Jazz in the Gardens This Weekend
When someone asks you to attend a concert featuring Chaka Khan, Anita Baker, Fantasia, Smokey Robinson and more, what do you do? You graciously accept the invite! And that is the story of how The Root became a media sponsor for the 13th annual Jazz in the Gardens Music Festival. As the fastest-growing jazz and…
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Meet the Mayor of Miami Gardens, Fla., One of the Largest Black-Run Cities in the Country
“Every night in my sleep, I need you beside me.” Imagine this line sung in the style of Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On,” off-key but with the same amount of confidence that Dion’s golden vocals boast. That’s how Miami Gardens, Fla., Mayor Oliver Gilbert started our interview. Clearly, I was in for a…
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Fla. Nursing School Grad Fatally Shot at House Party
A Florida nursing school graduate was shot and killed over the weekend after being caught in the crossfire at a Miami Gardens house party Saturday night, the Miami Herald reports. Alexandra Dean, who had only recently graduated a few weeks ago from Nova Southeastern University with a degree in nursing, was at the party around…