“The facts simply don’t match up to the reality Donald Trump has chosen to live in,” Sharpton said. “Even more than 60 years after the Civil Rights Act or the Voting Rights Act, many Black Americans ...

Staff Report For the fourth consecutive year, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS) exceeded the statewide graduation rate, reinforcing sustained progress and commitment to student success.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Lt. Gov. Jay Collins announced Monday that he’s running for governor in 2026, hoping to take over for term-limited Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Ben Crump We honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. each January with speeches, service projects, and by reciting powerful quotes we know by heart. But ...

Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), today announced the organization ...

Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the ...

MIAMI – Starting September 30, 2025, people will see a little bit more on their paychecks. Florida’s minimum wage will increase to $14 an hour and eventually $15 an hour in 2026 due to a ...

Miami- Black women nationwide have lost 106,000 jobs as of April 2025, the most for any racial group and gender amid President Donald Trump’s crackdown on Diversity, Equity Inclusion (DEI) policies ...

Florida City, Fla. – The next four years will be the final run for longtime Florida City Mayor Otis Wallace. Wallace, the mayor for Florida City since 1984, told his supporters after he was reelected ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Civil rights lawyer Alton Maddox Jr., who represented victims of several notorious racist attacks in New York in the 1980s, has died. He was 77. Maddox died Sunday in a Bronx nursing ...

FORT LAUDERDALE — When Eula Gandy Johnson, a native of Statenville, Ga., arrived in Fort Lauderdale in 1935, she soon decided that the Jim Crow laws in place needed to come to an end. The civil rights ...