Black History Month: The importance of Black own banks
Teri Williams, President and COO of One United Bank, said Black owned banks are focused on communities that feel unwelcome at other banks.
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Teri Williams, President and COO of One United Bank, said Black owned banks are focused on communities that feel unwelcome at other banks.
Jim Crow segregation was at the core of the circumstances that Killens operated in
CBS News Miami is commemorating Black History Month with a man whose name seems to be everywhere in the Black community, and rightly so.
CBS News Miami is commemorating Black History Month with a man whose name seems to be everywhere in the Black community, and rightly so.
Miami was a crucial starting point for the Negro baseball league
The 'Black History Project' is taught across the state, mostly through libraries and community-run programs
The 'Black History Project' is taught across the state, mostly through libraries and community-run programs
Gov. Ron Desantis said it was "absurd" and "nothing in state requires that"
Gov. DeSantis called it "absurd."
That wall was built in 1930 and stood as high as 6 feet tall. Also referred to as a ‘race wall’ its purpose was to separate the white and black neighborhoods of Liberty City and the Liberty Square or Pork and Bean project.
The wall, on NW 12th Avenue between 62nd Street and 67th Street, was built in the 1930s to separate the white neighborhoods from the Black neighborhoods.
CBS News Miami's Hank Tester talks to Enid Pinkney, a woman who has worked tirelessly to make sure that the role African Americans have played in Miami's history is acknowledged and preserved.
She was the driving force behind preserving Miami's Hampton House
The new stamps will be available beginning March 9th
The US Postal Service announced a series of stamps honoring 10 people who assisted with the Underground Railroad, the secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
At halftime of their game Wednesday night, at the Kaseya Center, the Miami Heat commemorated Black History Month by honoring 162 Black men who were among the founding fathers of the City of Miami.
At halftime of their game Wednesday night, at the Kaseya Center, the Miami Heat commemorated Black History Month by honoring 162 Black men who were among the founding fathers of the City of Miami.
At halftime of their game Wednesday night, at the Kaseya Center, the Miami Heat commemorated Black History Month by honoring 162 Black men who were among the founding fathers of the City of Miami.
Milton "Butterball" Smith was one of the pioneers of Miami's Black radio
For Black History Month, CBS News Miami's Hank Tester reflects on the life and legacy of South Florida icon and radio host Milton "Butterball" Smith.
The American Stroke Association shows strokes are more common in Black Americans than any other racial group in the U.S.
Toussaint Louverture helped Haitians revolt against slavery, allowing Haiti to become the first Black independent nation.
The City of Miami Gardens is the largest African American city by population in the entire state of Florida.
Constructed in 1890, the Mariah Brown House was built by one of Coconut Grove's first African-American residents
The origins of Black History Month start with a man named Carter G. Woodson.
Due to the sheer number of patients and the department's need for additional resources, MDFR said that they needed to upgrade the call to a Level 2 Mass Casualty Incident.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools said he was employed at Miami Jackson Senior High School.
South Florida is expected to see hot and humid conditions through Mother's Day, with feels-like temperatures reaching the upper 90s before rain showers return.
This is the second time within two months that a norovirus outbreak happened on a Princess ship based out of the Fort Lauderdale.
Coley Sohn and Linda Bagley-Sohn, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, say the city censored their protest against the city painting over its rainbow crosswalks.
Due to the sheer number of patients and the department's need for additional resources, MDFR said that they needed to upgrade the call to a Level 2 Mass Casualty Incident.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools said he was employed at Miami Jackson Senior High School.
South Florida is expected to see hot and humid conditions through Mother's Day, with feels-like temperatures reaching the upper 90s before rain showers return.
This is the second time within two months that a norovirus outbreak happened on a Princess ship based out of the Fort Lauderdale.
Coley Sohn and Linda Bagley-Sohn, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, say the city censored their protest against the city painting over its rainbow crosswalks.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
Alabama lawmakers have approved a plan for new House primaries if courts allow the state to use different congressional districts in this year's elections.
The Trump administration announced a major expansion of its denaturalization campaign targeting foreign-born American citizens accused of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.
More than 12,000 people gave up their asylum claims or voluntarily departed the U.S. as ICE moved to cut cases short by sending asylum-seekers to third countries, a CBS News analysis found.
Attorneys for accused White House Correspondents' Dinner shooter Cole Allen asked a judge to disqualify Jeanine Pirro and other senior Justice Department leaders from the case because they were present during the incident.
The Justice Department argues the patchwork of state laws around guns makes it difficult to take them across state lines for lawful purposes like target shooting, hunting and self-defense.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
In an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor's efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010.
The center – which was promised to voters back in 2004 – would take mentally ill individuals out of the jail and move them into a place where they can receive comprehensive treatment and support.
Luna said she expects Florida Democrat Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick to be the next member who either resigns or gets expelled.
Uthmeier was asked several times during a press conference in Miami this week if he had formally requested the judge overseeing the grand jury to keep the findings secret.
In 2002, Zermeño found out he contracted hantavirus after cleaning the family house following the death of his mother and sister. He had been exposed to rodent droppings and became infected.
Three passengers have been evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak, as related cases are confirmed in Switzerland and South Africa.
The FDA announced its first authorization of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes intended for adult smokers, a major policy shift after months of appeals to President Trump from the vaping industry.
Seventy-three percent of Americans say delays and denials of medical treatment by healthcare insurers are a major problem. Now, a company called Sheer Health says they will fight insurance battles on behalf of their clients.
An unlicensed cosmetologist from Florida has been found guilty in a California court for providing an injection that killed a model who was known as a Kim Kardashian lookalike, prosecutors said.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
A trial in the lawsuit between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was set to begin later in May.
The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady Gaga last year on one of the world's most iconic waterfronts.
Attending this year's Kentucky Derby meant more for thoroughbred expert Mark Toothaker, who suffered a seizure from laughing at a whiffed NFL field goal attempt that led to a lifesaving diagnosis.
David Allan Coe also had hits with "You Never Even Called Me By My Name" and "The Ride" among others.
Jake was at the funeral for one of his closest friends when he learned of his parents' deaths, he said.