In the wake of South Florida experiencing the largest year-over-year rent increases in the state at 57.2%, the Hallandale Beach Community Redevelopment Agency’s (CRA) Board of Directors voted unanimously on Tuesday, August 24, 2022, to approve the Rent Stabilization Program. The Program allocates $1 Million in rental assistance for qualifying tenants living within the CRA boundaries who earn low to moderate average median incomes and have had their rent increase by 20% or more.
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He was elected as the only Black commissioner of Florida City while still a second-year law student at the University of Miami in 1976. I, Alonzo Hardy, firmly believe that he is the longest serving Black elected official in Florida history.
History has largely overlooked the trailblazers who were the first Black men to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps, the Montford Point Marines, named after the segregated section of Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina, where they trained. On Aug. 26, on the 80th anniversary of when the first Montford Point Marines set foot on the Marine base, ABC Owned Television Stations debuted the trailer of “Our America: Mission Montford Point.”
Voter after voter showed up at the Miramar Branch Library on Election Day for Florida’s primary, stressing out Linda Thigpen. Without speaking to them, she knew each one came to the wrong polling place.
A Fort Lauderdale, FL, native who attended Boyd H. Anderson High School in Lauderdale Lakes now serves in the United States Navy and was last year’s Sailor of the Year at his command. This year, he was promoted to Petty Officer 1st Class.
Later that day, his puzzlement morphed into deep concern bordering on panic after a follow-up email from Sarasota County officials notified him that his company’s 21 properties had been sold in a bulk transfer. His lawyer found that someone he did not know had filed paperwork with Florida’s Division of Corporations, removing the officials at the decade-old business he and his mother owned, Glenco Properties Group Corp., and installing a new chief executive, he said.
Miami’s Historic Overtown Hosted the 7th Annual Urban Film Festival (UFF) through a jam-packed three-day weekend of educational programs, screenings, and networking social events September 2nd-4th. The weekend of events took place in a corner conglomerate of venues that provided an exclusive “Urban District” feel— Red Rooster’s Upper Deck Nightclub where all of the Networking Mixers were Hosted; and The Overtown Performing Arts Center, The Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater, Center for Black Innovation, and Dorsey Library where screenings, Masterclasses, and Panel Discussions were hosted.
The Labor Day weekend was ignited by the energy of nearly 40,000 fans at the Hard Rock Stadium, Sunday September 4th. The football game between Florida A&M (FAMU) Rattlers and Jackson State (JSU) Tigers was the culmination of a power packed weekend of social, educational, and economic impact, brought about by the 2022 Orange Blossom Classic.
Lynda Roberts fought back tears when she accomplished a milestone in the 69-year history of a local international service organization, becoming the first Black woman president of the Aventura/North Miami Beach Lions Club.
The Freedmen’s Bureau was created in 1865 during the Lincoln administration, by an act of Congress called the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill. Britanica.com, documents that the Freedmen’s Bureau, formally known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, was meant to give aid to over 4 million former slaves. They provided aid for food, housing, oversight, education, health care, and employment contracts with landowners. This was a planned step to integrate ex slaves into society.