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Hued Songs will present The Juneteenth Experience 2026, a month-long series of free cultural programming from May 23 through June 20, 2026, across Miami-Dade and Broward counties, celebrating Juneteenth through music, dance, spoken word, visual art and community gathering. The series builds toward Hued Songs’ signature Mainstage Performance, which will be presented in Miami Beach on June 19 and Fort Lauderdale on June 20.

The community came together to recognize exceptional visionaries and changemakers whose leadership, service and dedication strengthen the fabric of Broward County during Leadership Broward’s annual Fun Lunch at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

On Tuesday, the Broward County School Board approved a memorandum of understanding, finalizing a $2 million donor funded artificial intelligence rollout in Broward County Public Schools (BCPS). The memorandum passed after a contentious public comment period, in which the chair and general counsel repeatedly interrupted a District 6 candidate raising concerns about the contract.

     Wasserman Schultz announced her candidacy last week, seeking to represent the heavily Democratic Broward-and-Palm Beach-based district after major changes to Florida’s congressional map reshaped her current seat. Her entry immediately transformed the race into a high-profile contest featuring longtime political figures, community activists, and former elected officials. 

During a Special School Board Meeting, members of the Broward County School Board presented a proclamation honoring the life, vision, and enduring legacy of Levi Henry Jr. to the Henry family and staff of the Westside Gazette, recognizing his lifelong commitment to community service, leadership, and advocacy throughout Broward County and beyond.

       Republican lawmakers in Tennessee approved a controversial new congressional map that removes the state’s only majority-Black U.S. House district, centered around the city of Memphis. The decision has sparked protests, lawsuits, and national debate over voting rights and representation.  

       At 46 years old, I’ve lived long enough to know that silence is rarely accidental. It’s often a choice, one shaped by comfort, fear, exhaustion, or the belief that what’s happening doesn’t quite touch our front door yet. I’ve also learned this: silence has a sound. You may not hear it immediately, but over time it echoes, carrying consequences far beyond the moment we chose not to speak.

       Too many Black people heard truth come from Malcolm’s mouth yet discounted truth because it could not be right, it came from “a non-believer;” from someone not baptised in the faith, in Eurocentric Christianity. Beset by classical conditioning, beaten through the body into maimed minds, the African that left many doors of no return, survived horrible slave ships in crossing the Atlantic Ocean to centuries of chattel slavery, years of Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, legal discrimination, drugs and mass incarceration, heard truth and found a way to run from it, to hide somewhere in no man’s land, to so-called freedom!

 Free celebration of liberty with special guests, performers and activities

Florida Emancipation Day Block Party, Saturday, May 23, 2026 from 4:30 to 9:00 p.m., at Ali Cultural Arts Center, 353 NW 1st Street, Pompano Beach, FL 33060. Free and open to the public