It was a warm August morning in 1989 and Robert Lee Hearn, a supervisor with a major construction company, had just wrapped up a meeting with locators from the local utility company. The utility workers were advising him of the location of buried cables so as to not interfere with the underground telephone lines his company planned to install near the rural community of Indiantown in western Martin County, Fla. ...

Get out and vote

It’s one thing to register to vote, and another to essentially go out and vote for the candidate of your choice.

So many African Americans are registered to vote, but, according to Dr. Dorsey Miller, president of South Florida Operation Big Vote, Inc. (SFOBV), there are approximately 200,000 registered African American voters here in Broward County – but only 12 ...