Joey Francilus

This 2024 Black History Month, we celebrate "art as a platform for social justice," honoring legendary Florida author Zora Neale Hurston, musicians Ella Fitzgerald and Sammy Davis Jr., and Florida-born Bahamian-American actors Sidney Poitier and Esther Rolle.

We’re addressing the impacts of Gov. DeSantis’ assaults on the voting rights of Black Floridians during his term as Florida’s governor.

This Haitian Heritage Month, we learn five facts on the shared early histories of the U.S. and Haiti, the first and second oldest republics in the Western Hemisphere.

The impacts of climate change in Florida's biggest urban area will mostly affect middle and low income people in mainly Hispanic and Black neighborhoods in the city of Miami.

A decade of the Black Lives Matter movement, which started with Trayvon being deprived of his life and the ensuing pain and anguish his family and our world endured in his wake, is a reminder that racism does not disappear because of one man’s (or woman’s) election.

If this past year made anything clear, it is that America is not yet a “post-racial” society.

Trans people are our family members, friends, and neighbors. We all must ensure they can live their lives openly and without fear of discrimination.

Forty years after four white Miami police officers were acquitted by an all white jury in Tampa of the 1979 killing of unarmed black motorcyclist Arthur McDuffie, Floridians are still protesting the inequities in America's criminal justice system.

The events at Kent State 50 years ago crystallized a generation’s fight for social change.

Black History Month reminds us that Americans of African descent have played a central role in our shared American history from the start.

No one should face mortal threat for living on their own terms, irrespective of sexual orientation or ethnicity.

Four years after the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Americans are grappling with issues of race and disparity on the frankest terms since the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Ryan Destiny is hitting her mark in the entertainment industry at an age when most of her contemporaries are just finishing college.

Haitian-American physician Dr. Henri Ford is about to embark on a tenure as the tenth dean of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine this summer. His appointment makes him the first person of color to serve as chief administrator for Florida’s first medical school...

Hundreds of thousands of Haitian Diaspora members in the United States now have access to more airline travel choices between Haiti and South Florida...