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By Phillip Valys | pvalys@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel Harry Harrell and Gary Torrence’s mighty Southern pit-stop Tom Jenkins’ Bar-B-Q survived for 36 years on Federal Highway in the shadow of Fort Lauderdale’s ever-rising skyline. But on Dec. 21, the longtime friends and pitmasters will permanently close their barbecue house at 1236 S. Federal Highway, known for heaping […]

WLRN Public Media | By Wilkine Brutus A music and dance collective has grown beyond day parties into a full-fledged cultural community, bringing its unfettered energy to Miami Art Week each year. Everyday People originated out of New York City over a decade ago, hosting daytime hip-hop and R&B events. It’s since blossomed into an international community

By Milena Malaver and Jacqueline Charles Farah Larrieux never imagined herself leaving her native Haiti where she had a successful career as a TV and radio personality. But life in Haiti became too much to handle, with its political instability, corruption and gang violence. She left for Miami in 2005 and built a new life in South Florida.

By Verónica Egui Brito , Jacqueline Charles , Nora Gámez Torres and Raisa Habersham South Floridians from Cuba, Haiti and Venezuela expecting to become U.S. citizens this week learned instead that their naturalization ceremonies had been canceled after the Trump administration issued a sweeping directive aimed at halting immigration from so-called high-risk countries. The cancellations,

WLRN Public Media | By Wilkine Brutus Humans have more in common with animals than many would like to admit — even in how we move. A new three-day art activation in Miami highlights the connections between human migration and animal displacement through an array of murals. “Kindred Spirits,” a Soul Basel public-art activation, draws parallels between wildlife habitat

By Jacqueline Charles Two weeks after an 11-year-old Haitian girl and honor student died during a school outing in northern Dominican Republic, her mother says she still does not know how or why it happened. Stephora Anne-Mircie Joseph, a student at the Leonardo Da Vinci Institute in Santiago, died on Nov. 14 during a field trip

Air travelers in the U.S. without a REAL ID will be charged a $45 fee beginning in February, the Transportation Security Administration announced Monday. The updated ID has been required since May, but passengers without it have so far been allowed to clear security with additional screening and a warning. The Department of Homeland Security

By Rafael Olmeda | rolmeda@sunsentinel.com | South Florida Sun Sentinel Expelled members of one of Broward’s oldest and most prominent Black churches are planning to return to court later this week, hoping to convince a judge to intervene and, in their opinion, force a pastor to follow church bylaws on spending and church membership. Ezra Tillman, who was appointed

By Antonio María Delgado As Washington prepares to launch land attacks inside Venezuela, a long-awaited phone call between the White House and Caracas aimed at defusing the crisis carried a blunt message for strongman Nicolás Maduro: You can save yourself and those closest to you, but you must leave the country now, sources familiar with the

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS NEW YORK (AP) — Deals promoted as some of the best of the holiday season are expected to keep people across the United States glued to their computers and smartphones as the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon wraps up on Cyber Monday. It’s no secret that buying things online is now a staple of many people’s