The “It’s Our Time: A Pathway to Excellence” ceremony featured keynote speaker Captain Clevin Weekes.
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From engaging campus tours to insightful admissions sessions, every stop on the journey was filled with learning and inspiration. The tour concluded with a powerful visit to the Florida State Capitol, where students explored the impact of civic engagement and the importance of using their voices to shape change.
Dozens of people attended a town hall at New Hope Baptist Church in Fort Lauderdale on April 9, 2025 to vent about their high utility bills and oppose FPL’s proposed $9 billion rate increase, the largest in U.S. history, if approved.
He’s carrying a quartet of bills this year, each designed to better safeguard at-risk kids. Some are repeats of measures he’s filed in years past. All would make the Sunshine State safer for those young people.
Republicans love to talk during their political campaigns and public pronouncements about “saving the children,” yet, to their eternal shame, Florida and many of the other states in the union also have a hunger — specifically, a child hunger — problem.
In Fort Lauderdale, a city rich in both civil rights history and athletic tradition, a proposed historical marker honoring long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad has sparked a heated and deeply personal debate—one that underscores the tension between honoring individual achievement and preserving collective memory.
The YMCA of South Florida hosts the annual FREE Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, April 26 from 9 a.m. to noon at seven YMCA locations across Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
The Fort Lauderdale (FL) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated has deepened its commitment to education with an $11,000 contribution to its endowed scholarship fund at Florida Memorial University (FMU), a historically Black university in Miami Gardens, Florida. This latest contribution brings the total fund to over $25,000, further strengthening the chapter’s efforts to address the critical shortage of Black male educators by providing financial support to students pursuing degrees in education.
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How do I get a prenup without paying high legal fees? This is a second marriage for me and I‘m very close to retirement, plus we both have pensions. My partner has 3 adult kids, and I have 2 and we’re agreed that we probably should have something. Thanks, Helen M. FL