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Tucked away in a small shopping center, a few weeks before Haiti celebrates its fifth flag day since the earthquake, a restaurant played host to an expo that commemorated the start of Haitian Cultural Month. David Brown, who provides tours of Little Haiti as director or Urban Tours, gathered the group of artists, artisans, chefs and performers to...

There was a welcome air of ethnic inclusion at the ceremonial ribbon-cutting event Monday as the Greater Miami Convention & Visitor’s Bureau (GMCVB) unveiled a new tourist center at the Little Haiti Caribbean & Multicultural Marketplace. “This is Haitian Flag Day and Haitian Heritage Month. That’s one of the reasons we wanted to roll this out now,...

One of the creators of the clothing line, J. Alexander Martin, recently visited Fort Lauderdale and mingled with other entrepreneurs and business people at an after-five mixer organized by the South Florida Black Professionals (SFBP)....

The ribbon cutting ceremony played with music in the background to officially open the doors of Rose’s Café in busy downtown Miami. Located at 200 NW Second Ave., facing the Stephen P. Clark Government Center building, Rose’s Café will serve hot meals for breakfast and lunch, between the hours of 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. It marked the conclusion of a tens...

With the low-income levels of Black women living in Miami’s Upper East Side and the rise of the Black natural hair movement, some question the viability of the new, luxury hair extension boutique Indique that opened in the Miami Modern district last month....

Gina Hankerson’s headstone business is coming alive. Since her business was founded four years ago, Hankerson has been slowly carving her niche in a challenging funeral industry that generates $15 billion a year. She often works 12-hour days to build a clientele at her business, Angelic Monument in Lauderhill. She started it as a headstone c...

While other teens were flipping burgers and babysitting, Kourtney Ratliff was helping to build one of the nation’s premier financial institutions. During high school breaks, she commuted 70 miles from her native Racine, Wisconsin, to Chicago to intern at Loop Capital, the bank her cousin James Reynolds Jr. founded in 1997. Today, Ratliff is a p...

The green walls that were once covered with nostalgic posters and classic lunch specials were painted pink. The old checkerboard linoleum floor has been replaced with sleek, creamed-colored ceramic tiles....

Fort Lauderdale-based D. Stephenson Construction Inc. has been selected to construct All Aboard Florida's Argentelle Catering & Special Events building near its future Fort Lauderdale passenger-train station. The facility will be located on land just west of the Florida East Coast Railway. The development is part of a greater master-planning...

Luther Campbell is most notably known for his raunchy booty-shaking music and for going to the U.S. Supreme Court in a battle for free speech. But he’s also a lifelong Florida resident.Recently, he wrote a column for the Miami New Times where he spoke about the loss of African American-owned businesses on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in...