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Activists worked to register Florida’s former felons to vote

With the general election just weeks away, Florida’s ex-felons may well be the swing votes that never materialize, said activists. Until yesterday’s Oct. 5 deadline to register, they worked overtime to get that population to the polls. Prior to the passage of Amendment 4 in 2018, people who had been convicted of a felony permanentlyContinue reading “Activists worked to register Florida’s former felons to vote”

Florida’s essential workers: Where are they now? (includes multimedia content)

Audio interview from Jean Jones and Alfred Harris Jr.: HERE As we enter the sixth month of the coronavirus pandemic, essential workers continue to attend to the public’s everyday needs, leaving them overworked, mentally exhausted and having to adjust their daily lives to working in dangerous environments    According to an analysis by the Center forContinue reading “Florida’s essential workers: Where are they now? (includes multimedia content)”

THE DIFFERENT CULTURES OF MIAMI ALLOW FOR UNIQUE EVENTS, TALENT, ART

Singer Carole Carole Ann Taylor photographed by Leesa Richards. In 1972 Carole Ann Taylor made her first trip to Miami Beach when she traveled there as a delegate to attend both the Democratic and Republican Conventions. “On Miami Beach and Ocean Drive all you could see were senior citizens sitting on porches where all theContinue reading “THE DIFFERENT CULTURES OF MIAMI ALLOW FOR UNIQUE EVENTS, TALENT, ART”

FROST ART MUSEUM FIU OFFERS EXHIBITIONS FOR VIEWING IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY

Mickalene Thomas, b.1971, Camden, New Jersey, lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. A Moment’s Pleasure in Black and White Chromogenic print 2006 14 x 17 inches Collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz. The Frost Art Museum FIU  debuted a new exhibition on Sept. 26 titled, “House to House: Women, Politics, and Place.”Continue reading “FROST ART MUSEUM FIU OFFERS EXHIBITIONS FOR VIEWING IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY”