Love To You Who Are Grieving On Christmas

by Kevin Burton    It’s deeply upsetting to me that my mother was in a hospital, alone on Christmas Eve, in what could easily be her last Christmas season.    There isn’t a phone in her room and I don’t believe she grabbed her cell phone for an emergency trip to ER Monday night. So …

Black Florida Neighborhood Resists Annexation

By Raisa Habersham Miami Herald     More than a year after efforts to annex parts of Brownsville into Hialeah failed, the historically Black community and three other neighborhoods are taking steps to become a city.     Brownsville Civic Association president Kenneth Kilpatrick said the Hialeah annexation was a “wake up call” for residents living in …