They sit in C-suites with bay views, broker high-profile deals and earn enviable salaries. But for all their apparent success, Miami's black business executives say they are profoundly dismayed by...
June 8, 2020
If Miami wishes to call itself a true international city, then we must rise to a position of leadership around the crisis incited by systemic police brutality and racial profiling...
June 8, 2020
I have been hesitant to join in with the many executives who have issued communiques, knowing that any words are far too inadequate in the face of the events that...
June 8, 2020
I am a mother of a beautiful, brown skin five-year-old boy and the love that I have for him cannot be defined. It is beyond measure. But if I rewind...
June 8, 2020
To those in Miami's tech and startup ecosystem: If you only post a message of solidarity and not make plans for change in your company culture, your hiring practices, admission...
June 8, 2020
Our residents in Broward County are angry and hurt over the cruelty we have witnessed in the recent deaths of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery as well as...
June 8, 2020
Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity has particular relevance today. When I think about the national outcry for justice in support of black lives, I see this formula as a...
June 8, 2020
As someone who has lived through three Miami riots, I see the protests here and around the nation over the unjustified killing of George Floyd as a tipping point. We...
June 8, 2020
The Miami Herald CEO Roundtable continues with a new group of participants selected from among South Florida's top business leaders. During the next six months, the CEOs will give their...
June 8, 2020
His Future His Future. I know you are thinking these life stories usually start with the Past, followed by the Present, and close out with the Future. I tried starting...
June 8, 2020
Talks this week check in on condo associations and commercial real estate as the South Florida economy continues to re-open. June 8 ▪ The D.C.-based nonprofit Urban Land Institute will...
June 8, 2020
To help revive the devastated travel industry, airline trade groups and aviation manufacturers are kicking off campaigns to convince travelers that the risk of being infected by the coronavirus on...
June 8, 2020
The solar industry, struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic, faces another threat at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: a petition that would effectively end a key incentive for installing rooftop solar...
June 8, 2020
Companies and CEOs around the country are denouncing racism and violence in the wake of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Here are portions of their public comments and...
June 8, 2020
As industrial polluters try to erase their greenhouse gas emissions, they plan to spend billions of dollars in the coming years on preserving and restoring forests to cancel out pollution...
June 8, 2020
The city that never sleeps had a curfew for much of last week. Famous stores were boarded up after days of unrest. The lights are out on Broadway theaters, and...
June 8, 2020
First things first, Heidi Trull's decision to re-open Grits and Groceries is not COVID-related and it's not because the chef and owner, along with husband Joe, have had a change...
June 8, 2020
Shares advanced Monday in Asia, buoyed by surprisingly strong U.S. jobs figures that helped power a surge on Wall Street on Friday. Crude oil prices rose after major oil producing...
June 8, 2020
ISLAMABAD — The number of new coronavirus infections in Pakistan continued to spiral upward, as thenation of 220 million people surpassed 100,000 cases as of Sunday with more than 2,000...
June 8, 2020
Less than five months before voters will decide his fate, President Donald Trump is confronting a vastly different political reality than he once envisioned. For starters, if the election were...
June 8, 2020
Authorities say a man in Seattle drove a car at George Floyd protesters in Seattle Sunday night, hit a barricade then exited the vehicle brandishing a pistol. At least one...
June 8, 2020
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday she was confident New Zealand has halted the spread of the coronavirus after the last known infected person in the country recovered. It has...
June 8, 2020
President Donald Trump is exaggerating economic gains for African Americans during his administration. He claims full credit for achieving the best economic figures for blacks across the board. That's not...
June 8, 2020
An Iranian doctor based in Florida returned to his homeland Monday after being part of a swap that saw a U.S. Navy veteran held by Iran return to America. The...
June 7, 2020
The New York Times' editorial page editor resigned Sunday after the newspaper disowned an opinion piece by U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton that advocated using federal troops against protesters, and it...
June 7, 2020
Criminals are seizing on a surge in job losses to steal unemployment benefits from Americans nationwide. This complicates an already tough situation for millions of financially strapped Americans and overwhelmed...
June 7, 2020
Protesters are pushing to “defund the police" over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans killed by law enforcement. Their chant has become rallying cry — and a...
June 7, 2020
The Lansing Correctional Facility is largest single source of Kansas' 10,393 coronavirus cases, followed by a Tyson Foods meatpacking plant near Garden City, according to a report by state health...
June 7, 2020
Black activists believe the police killing of George Floyd and the nationwide civil unrest that followed could be the catalyst for overhauling the criminal justice system. Following Saturday's massive demonstrations...
June 7, 2020
For someone who died nearly three centuries years ago, Edward Colston has become a symbol for the Black Lives Matter movement in Britain. The toppling of his statue in Bristol,...
June 7, 2020
The Carolina Panthers and two universities have canceled their partnerships with a North Carolina home security company after company's CEO told an activist he should focus on black-on-black crime rather...
June 7, 2020
The Second City improv theater has announced it appointed an African American, Anthony LeBlanc, as interim executive producer, replacing the troupe's co-owner and CEO who resigned following accusations of racism...
June 7, 2020
Stuck at home in a paralyzing health crisis, people across America finally tackled long-delayed, home improvement projects that are giving a boost to the do-it-yourself and handyman segments of the...
June 7, 2020
Georgia's congressional delegation is pushing to name a post office for the late state Sen. Jack Hill. All 14 Georgia members of the U.S. House signed proposed legislation to place...
June 7, 2020
Dayton Moore remembers so clearly the vast sections of empty seats inside Kauffman Stadium when he took over as general manager of the Kansas City Royals, and he remembers just...
June 7, 2020
New York City lifted the curfew spurred by protests against police brutality ahead of schedule Sunday after a peaceful night, free of the clashes or ransacking of stores that rocked...
June 7, 2020
The Poarch Band of Creek Indians is planning to reopen its electronic bingo casinos on Monday. Wind Creek Hospitality said that all three Alabama casinos will reopen with safety changes....
June 7, 2020
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, a young woman in Texas -- as yet unaware of the horrors unfolding half a country away -- learns that she is pregnant....
June 7, 2020
Saccharine services and an unwillingness to address tough issues are driving people away from the church in the US. Christians should get real about what's happening. Jonathan Steingard, the singer...
June 7, 2020
For weeks Samantha Clarke calmly listened to the insults and threats directed daily at her and her employees by people who learned they couldn't enter the Modesto, California, store without...
