Black Panther is an epic that every African-American must see. I never thought I’d see a Hollywood movie that goes over the heads of white people, but the latest Marvel film does the trick. Black Panther speaks in a code only black revolutionary minds can understand.
Everywhere you turn in Miami, gentrification is in full swing. Real estate prices are booming in Allapattah, Brownsville, Little Haiti, Liberty City, and Overtown as the same developers who bought up and transformed South Beach and Wynwood set their sights on new territories to exploit. Here’s how it…
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez once again has proven he doesn’t care about African-Americans unless he needs our vote. The county mayor was a no-show at a January 16 community meeting to address the epic gun violence that is plaguing Northwest Miami-Dade, home to a majority of the county’s black residents…
South Florida law enforcement has put a bull’s-eye on the Bikes Up, Guns Down movement that will take over local streets and highways this Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Gun-toting thugs are besieging Miami-Dade’s inner-city neighborhoods, and county cops are missing in action. Since early December, more than a dozen people, including children, have been shot in unincorporated parts of Northwest Miami-Dade. Five of the victims are dead. On January 3, two others were fatally gunned down in Liberty City and Little Haiti.
It’s 2018, and Donald Trump is still president of the United States. Let that fester for a minute. But the odds are against the least popular commander-in-chief of all time making it through his second year. As we enter the new year, here are my predictions on Trump and other…
We survived the first year of the Trump era without the 45th president obliterating the United States in a nuclear war with North Korea. In light of all the scandals and controversies seeping out of the White House, 2017 felt like seven long-ass dog years to many of us. Then there were all the powerful men in media, entertainment, and politics who have been taken out by the #MeToo movement of people exposing perverts and creeps in just about every major industry.
Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins fails to grasp the meaning of bowing your head and raising a fist. After 26 weeks of silently protesting during “The Star-Spangled Banner” to call attention to police brutality against African-Americans, Jenkins stopped doing so this past Sunday.
If switching races was as easy as trading players in professional sports, African-Americans would swap Tiger Woods for Prince Harry in a heartbeat. In recent days, Woods proved he’s an Uncle Tom, while the young princeling is breaking down royal racial barriers by getting engaged to an American woman who is half black.
He’s baaaaaaaaaaack. Sixteen years after he lost his bid to be reelected as Miami’s mayor, Crazy Joe Carollo is returning to 3500 Pan American Drive as a city commissioner. On Tuesday night, he squeaked out a narrow victory in a run-off against Alfie Leon, a former aide to his brother…
The NCAA has no integrity. The cutthroat organization that oversees collegiate sports does everything possible to prevent student-athletes from making a living but nothing to stop scalpers from profiting off the young men who play at sold-out stadiums. Just look at the price gouging for tickets to this weekend’s game between the Miami Hurricanes and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, which will be played at Hard Rock Stadium Saturday at 8 p.m. Saturday.
Papa John’s founder John Schnatter claims he lost $70 million this week, at least partially due to the NFL controversy that centers on players kneeling during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice and inequality. “This should have been nipped in the bud a year and a half ago,” Schnatter said. “The [NFL] controversy is polarizing the customer, polarizing the country.”
John Rivera, president of the union representing Miami-Dade Police officers, is more interested in politics than upholding his oath to protect the community. The head honcho of the Miami-Dade County Police Benevolent Association recently sent an email to his union members expressing his “disgust” with three Miami Dolphins players…
Colin Kaepernick’s grievance threatens to expose the plantation mentality of the NFL team owners. They have banded together to blackball the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback because of the player protests he began during the National Anthem to raise awareness of this country’s oppression of minorities, especially African-Americans, who are recklessly killed by police officers.
The University of Miami Hurricanes will enter this Saturday’s showdown against the Florida State Seminoles after losing seven straight times to their biggest rival. It’s the most important game yet in the Mark Richt era, even though the Seminoles are coming in severely wounded and unranked. The loser will face devastating consequences in the competition for the best high-school players from South Florida.
NFL owners are a racist lot, but Donald Trump threw them a lifeline by calling players who protest the National Anthem “sons of bitches” who ought to be fired.
For a minute, it appeared Donald Trump had sewn up the deadbeat-parent vote for his reelection campaign. Last week, an article declaring “Child Support Said to End by Beginning of 2018″ thanks to a new law signed by the commander in chief appeared on the Facebook page of the website react365.com.
The Hurricane Irma recovery effort is in full swing, but once again Miami’s hardest-hit African-American communities have to fend for themselves.
After Donald Trump’s incendiary comments providing cover for the neo-Nazis and other white supremacists who terrorized Charlottesville, we’ve witnessed a lot of pearl-clutching from the Republican Party’s leaders in government and the media. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell condemned “hate and bigotry.” House Speaker Paul Ryan railed that “white supremacy…
Last week, Miami native Devonta Freeman became the highest paid running back in the NFL when he signed a five-year contract extension with the Atlanta Falcons worth $41.25 million that includes a $15 million signing bonus. It’s a remarkable accomplishment for a young man who has earned his place as…
Last season, Kaepernick infuriated a small racist segment of NFL fans and sports pundits by taking a knee during the singing of the National Anthem to protest police brutality against blacks
John McCain is a maverick for real. The Arizona senator upended his party’s seven-year mission to eradicate Obamacare by voting no late last night on a Republican bill that would have eliminated parts of the Affordable Care Act after the GOP-led Senate failed to repeal and replace the health-care law.
