March 2025

By Emily Mahoney Tampa Bay Times   Florida Power & Light, the state’s largest utility, is seeking a nearly $9 billion hike to customers’ base rates over four years, a sum that affordability advocates said represents the largest rate hike request in U.S. history. Base rates are a major component of electricity bills that also include […]

By Lisa J. Huriash | [email protected] | South Florida Sun Sentinel   Florida recently saw the highest number of homes listed for sale in the past 13 years, with more than 172,000 homes available on the market, a new analysis shows. January ended with 172,209 homes for sale, the highest number of any month in records dating to 2012,

Rare diseases often leave those diagnosed feeling isolated, misunderstood, and searching for answers. Cheryl and Vera, two sisters bound by love and resilience, have not only faced these challenges head-on but have also turned their journey into a beacon of hope for others. Cheryl lives with sarcoidosis and interstitial lung disease (ILD), while Vera has taken

By Alice Gibbs Newsweek Life   When she was diagnosed with cancer in July 2020, 28-year-old Natasha Allen knew her life would change. But there was one particular physical change that she wasn’t expecting-the loss of melanin in her skin. Allen, who lives in New York, has been battling stage 4 synovial sarcoma since July 2020,

The daughter of a single mother who gave birth at 15 to her and her twin sister Sidra, actress and director Tasha Smith grew up around gangs, drugs and poverty in Camden, N.J., a city that one time was named the murder capital of the nation. “I’ve been to the worst place I could ever be,” she

A decade ago, one man made it his mission to promote images of men smiling amid political turmoil #BlackMenSmile became a hashtag with a purpose.   (Black PR Wire) Ten years ago, Carlton Mackey, like much of the country’s Black population, was overwhelmed with media images of death, anger and unrest in the wake of Michael