Fort Lauderdale Commission Votes to Extend Sistrunk Boulevard Name

Just a month or so back, Fort Lauderdale’s black community was good and mad about what’s in a name. The moniker in question was “Sistrunk Boulevard,” the strip that runs through the city’s historically black neighborhood. The debate pitted white yuppies in a neighboring gentrifying area against an older African…

Mug-Shot Friday: Special Halloween Edition

You spoke, we listened. Back by popular demand, welcome to this week’s Mug-Shot Friday, a longstanding franchise focusing on the week’s most eye-catching mugs from South Florida’s tat heads, tough guys, derp faces, and femmes fatale. In the spirit of Halloween, this week we tried to round up the scariest…

Biking While Black Is a Crime

Huffing home on her green beach cruiser, Lekeithra Smith was already edgy about what might be hunkered down in the dark, waiting. It was near 9:30 p.m. in late April 2011. The 22-year-old was pedaling just a few feet behind her high-school-aged cousin Deadra, coming back from a party at…

NSU Profs Allegedly Criticize Orthodox Jew

When Sarah Orzechowitz walked through the doors at Nova Southeastern University on the first day of classes in winter 2012, she had her hopes pinned on a career as a nurse. But as the mother of two went through the Davie university’s program, higher learning turned out to be a…

Horses Are Being Slaughtered and Dumped in a Loxahatchee Canal

If you’re looking to take Junior out for some angling in the wilderness, you might want to steer clear of Loxahatchee. Last week, some people fishing a remote sliver of water out in the western edge of Palm Beach County stumbled upon a horrific find: the leftovers of a horse…