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Community health centers: Quality service in the ‘hood’

Company offers business expertise Believe it or not, it was President Lyndon Johnson’s Administration that first recognized the need to provide quality health care in America’s poorest neighborhoods. Johnson and…

Gevene Dobson — one of the first Blacks to “fly the friendly skies”

Gevene Dobson, 65, is enjoying life these days, taking trips across the state of Florida with other friends who are also retired. But years ago, when she was just in…

Did Blacks and Native Americans fight racism together?

Leonce Gaiter’s book reveals a rarely seen side of U.S. history During the summer of 1895, a multi-racial group of teenagers known as the Rufus Buck Gang went on a…

Miami’s Longshoremen’s Association: Blazing trails since 1936

 Fighters for equal rights, better pay and a political voice Unions have thrived in places like Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburgh, but here in Miami they were highly unpopular. Said another…

Local studio aims to bring water to Haiti

With the mounting problems in Haiti, people around the world have assisted in helping the earthquake ravaged nation regain some sense of normalcy. Locally, professionals in South Florida’s entertainment community…

Tuskegee Airmen gain newfound recognition

Ret. Lieutenant Colonels Eldridge Williams, 94 and Leo Gray, 87 (l-r), documented original Tuskegee Airmen, during their trip to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. Both men,…

Plan approved to outsource County’s Head Start

Moss, Jordan stand opposed but not backed by fellow commissioners In efforts to save money and remove themselves from the business of education, the Miami-Dade County commissioners voted last week…

County has first Black supervisor of elections

Penelope Townsley makes history Last year Penelope Townsley, 55, made history by becoming the first Black woman to serve as the supervisor of elections for Miami-Dade County. Townsley was appointed…