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Popular nonprofit 1909 to expand in West Palm Beach, supports local entrepreneurship

WLRN Public Media | By Wilkine Brutus Big news for Palm Beach County’s business startup scene — a popular nonprofit that fuels local entrepreneurship is moving into a brand new space in the historic Comeau Building in West Palm Beach. The grand opening for the member-only community is set for Saturday, May 10 at 6 p.m.   […]

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Feast on ‘Fat Ham,’ a fresh take on ‘Hamlet’ surrounding a Black family in the American South

By Mary Damiano | Miami Times There have been a lot of remakes and updates of William Shakespeare’s plays. “West Side Story” is “Romeo and Juliet” set in 1950’s New York. The recent hit rom-com Anyone But You is based on “Much Ado About Nothing.” The films 10 Things I Hate About You and Deliver Us from Eva and the stage musical

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Why aren’t Americans filling the manufacturing jobs we already have?

By Greg Rosalsky President Trump has been upending the global economy in the name of bringing manufacturing back. President Joe Biden signed into law massive investments aimed at doing something similar. The American manufacturing sector is reviving after decades of decay. But there’s something a bit weird undercutting this movement to reshore factory jobs: American manufacturers

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Democratic legislator Jason Pizzo says he plans to run for governor in 2026

WLRN Public Media | By Sergio R. Bustos Former Florida Democratic Party leader Jason Pizzo, who left the party last month saying it was “dead,” said Sunday that he’s planning to run as an independent in the 2026 governor’s race. Pizzo, in an interview with CBS4 Facing South Florida’s Jim DeFede, revealed his gubernatorial plans after DeFede asked him directly

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Degrees of love: A Haitian mother-daughter duo marks Mother’s Day with shared academic triumph

WLRN Public Media | By Amelia Orjuela Da Silva | Miami Times For Marnatha Ternier and her daughter, Hillary Pierre, this Mother’s Day will be more than flowers and brunch — it will be a celebration of perseverance, womanhood and a shared family dream realized side-by-side. On Saturday, Ternier, a 48-year-old mother of three, former minister

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Miami’s Circle of Brotherhood rallies against funding cuts to gun violence prevention programs

WLRN Public Media | By Amelia Orjuela Da Silva | Miami Times This week, more than 100 community members brought awareness to a major budget shortfall in the Miami-based Circle of Brotherhood’s gun violence prevention programs. Standing outside the Dr. Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall Social-Economic Institute, home to the nonprofit, supporters rallied against the federal government’s sudden funding

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