Senate Bill 166 is proposing to scale back on graduation requirements for algebra 1 and grade 10 English language arts, which students must pass to receive their high school diploma.
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Florida Memorial University (FMU) is embarking on a historic $500 million redevelopment project aimed at transforming its Miami Gardens campus into a hub for academic innovation, workforce development, and community engagement.
Teenagers as young as 14 could soon be allowed to work overnight shifts as part of an effort in the Republican-led Legislature to roll back major aspects of the state’s child labor laws.
The City of Pembroke Pines invites you to participate in the 20th Annual Art Competition. Artists 18 years or older residing in the tri-county area (Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach counties) are eligible to participate. Accepted artworks will be on display at Studio 18 Art Complex from May 16 to August 4, 2025.
Before the Civil War in 1789, famed Quaker Moses Brown initiated reparations, as documented in Brown University’s Slavery and Justice report. Callie House, known as the “Matriarch for Reparations,” spearheaded Black demands for restitution. Callie was born in 1861, and basically grew up free. She raised five kids as a widowed washerwoman living in Nashville. An 1891 pamphlet, Freedmen’s Pension Bill: A Plea for American Freedmen, sparked Callie’s lifelong reparations advocacy.
Nearly every Tesla dealership in the United States and the world had 100 to 500 peaceful protestors out front Saturday March 29. Elon Musk’s electric car company earned rebuke, 6-week sales slumped continued, stock values dropped by half, and large stockholders sold out. Telsa’s destruction is Elon Musk’s payback for his role in firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers and crippling and destroying federal programs illegally without Congress approval.
Trailblazers of Broward County, Inc., gathered at the Old Dillard Museum with featured speaker George Gadson, the artist who was commissioned to designed the Sankofa Monument in the Sistrunk Plaza. He presented the “Making of our Monument” visually with discussion of the process, procedures and development.
I was deeply honored to receive the Nonprofit Leader of the Year award at the 211 Broward Nonprofit Awards-an event that truly feels like the Oscars for our field.
Aviation Maintenance Administrationman 2nd Class Jalen Saintil, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, removes a battery from a battle lantern in the IM-5 division shop onboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), while in-port Naval Base Kitsap in Bremerton, Washington, March 6, 2025. Ronald Reagan provides a combat-ready force that protects and defends the United States, and supports alliances, partnerships and collective maritime interests in the Indo-Pacific region.
Edmonia Lewis is inarguably the most renowned mixed-race artist in American history. Her father was a free West Indian and her mother was part Chippewa and an artist in her own right. Edmonia’s groundbreaking sculpture was the gargantuan 3,000-pound work, The Death of Cleopatra. She devoted four years of her life to this marvel. This led her to Rome to rid the shackles of being a creative Black and a woman in the Reconstruction Era.