Ever wonder why some women are genuinely happy when another woman succeeds and others seem to have trouble with it? It’s not what you think. …

Teri Williams and Miami Gardens Mayor Oliver Gilbert. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Efforts to close the gap between the “haves” and the “havenots” continue to …

Three of the local acts getting their big shot on the Jazz in the Gardens stage have a great deal in common. They’re all women, …

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Seventy two years have passed since Willie James Howard was lynched in Live Oak, Florida, decades before her birth; but the …

After graduating from Morehouse College, Cassius Butts contemplated attending law school, graduate school or the seminary. He decided on graduate school and earned his Master …

A nationwide celebration of blackness seems to be gaining steam. Beyonce’s release of her much talked about Formation video, followed by what many called a …

By MICHELLE HOLLINGER MHollinger@sfltimes.com Robert Battle’s journey to become the artistic director of the prestigious, internationally renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is full of …

By MICHELLE HOLLINGER MHollinger@sfltimes.com   Like millions of Americans, Tiayan and Derrick Dennison hated their ‘9 to 5.’ She worked at a call center. He …

By MICHELLE HOLLINGER MHollinger@sfltimes.com Eradicating poverty in the black community is one of those intractable, seemingly impossible goals that individuals, organizations and politicians seem to …

If Miamians knew what they had in Felecia Hatcher, people would form a line blocks long to attend any of her well-thought out, informative and …