Another important chapter of Pompano Beach’s Black history has been permanently marked as the community gathered to honor Nellie Lee Ford Poitier, a pioneering educator, businesswoman and community servant whose influence touched generations.
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Visit Lauderdale’s documentary series is preserving the voices, experiences and contributions that are part of Broward County’s story.
Dreaming big means believing that your future can be greater than your current situation. It means looking beyond where you are today and imagining where you want to be tomorrow. Whether you want to become a doctor, teacher, entrepreneur, athlete, artist, engineer, or something completely different, your dream gives you something to work toward.
Every community has a story. But when that story belongs to generations of people who built, struggled, sacrificed and persevered, deciding how that history is represented becomes more than an artistic exercise.
Florida Memorial University (FMU) today announced that Fall 2026 enrollment has reached 2,556 students, the largest enrollment in the university’s 147-year history and a 100 percent increase over Fall 2025. The milestone marks a defining moment in FMU’s ongoing institutional transformation and reaffirms the university’s standing as South Florida’s only Historically Black College or University (HBCU).
According to a new 50-state analysis by Schiller Kessler Group, Florida recorded 105 drowning deaths, the highest number of any state. The report found that across all ages, Black Americans drowned at 1.5 times the rate of white Americans.
Broward County Administrator Monica Cepero has been elected president of the Florida Association of County Managers (FACM) for the 2026–2027 term.
Three days after the crown was placed on her head, Justus Kelley’s Miss USA victory remains bigger than a pageant win — it represents a barrier broken three times over.
From the gutting of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013 to the racial gerrymandering sanctioned in Louisiana v. Callais earlier this year, to the Court’s latest emergency ruling enabling the current administration’s federal takeover of mail voting, the pattern reveals itself with brutal clarity. Every time Black communities organize, mobilize and build electoral power, the legal architecture shifts to contain it. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — the first Black woman to sit on the nation’s highest court — has named this pattern from the bench with a moral precision that demands a national reckoning. The question is whether the nation will listen before November.
Jolly is running on a gun safety platform that includes four tenets: He wants to ban the sale of assault weapons, require universal and comprehensive background checks on gun purchases, explore licensing for firearm ownership, and preserve and expand the “red flag” laws passed in the wake of the 2018 school shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public High School in Parkland.