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If you're having writer's block, some young poets in Morningside K-8 Academy might help get the gears moving. They recently learned how to write their own masterpieces about the uniqueness of living in Miami.

"To be housing ICE detainees in a detention camp in the middle of the Everglades … without making sure that they have enough access to nutritious food and the ability to sleep and have access to counsel — everything about this screams inhumane and unnecessary," U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, told reporters.

The award will go towards helping more than 9,000 Broward County high school students and about 14,000 middle schoolers from underserved communities.

“Poetry is church for some people,” said Ingrid Basin, founder of ON THE B SIDE, one of South Florida’s longest-running spoken word platforms. During National Poetry Month, the beloved spoken-word poetry organization marking two decades as a South Florida cultural staple.

Following a failed effort to move the city's elections, Miami will now pay out a former mayoral candidate. Thursday's City commission meeting also outlined money earmarked for a new government center at the development hosting Inter Miami's new home.

New internal permitting policies are in, the longtime tree protection chief is out, and the city is gearing up for another round with residents to rewrite its tree laws.

The Nuyorican actress and writer — best known for her portrayal of Maria on Sesame Street — is the subject of a new documentary STREET SMART: Lessons from a TV Icon. The film follows Manzano’s journey from her childhood in the Bronx to Carnegie Mellon University and eventually to becoming an Emmy Award-winning actress and writer.

The October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel is at the center of S. Asher Gelman's new play.

While waiting for test results at her job at the University of Miami’s cancer research lab, Katerina Lomis would ink down her thoughts that would eventually turn into fully fledged songs. Inspired by South Florida’s music community, Lomis has left the lab for a life in music.

Florida has one of the largest foreign-born populations in the U.S. For some, the fate of citizenship for their new children hangs in the balance of the Supreme Court’s decision on President Trump’s effort to change more than a century-long practice.

Conversations on potentially incorporating a group of historically Black neighborhoods in north central Miami-Dade County are gaining urgency, as residents and community leaders push for Brownsville to be included in an ongoing feasibility study on the matter.

Miami-Dade’s sheriff suspended the program indefinitely last April after a joint Florida Trib and Miami Herald investigation discovered that police personnel who were supposed to review all violation notices and weed out those improperly issued were overwhelmed by the sheer volume — more than 400 a day.