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Man in protective gear points large gun at man holding a toddler, at close range. Toddler is screaming.

An iconic image challenged the politics of Cuban Americans

Media

Photographer Alan Díaz died on Tuesday at age 71. His 2000 image of the Cuban boy Elián González being taken by force from his American relatives endures.

Three women on stage gesticulating, one with blackface pounding her chest

A Miami theater group has a change of heart over blackface

Arts, Culture & Media

Last Call for a Legend of Miami Nightlife

Arts, Culture & Media

Painting with Electricity

Arts, Culture & Media

Starring Judy Blume as Herself

Arts, Culture & Media
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An immigrant detainee is sent over 1,000 miles away from his family and lawyer — and fights to return

Justice

Prominent immigrant advocate Ravi Ragbir was detained in New York City, but agents sent him to Florida after saying that they would deport him. A judge told the government to bring him back while his case is being heard.

Hazel Bethel is a Manischewitz wine devotee. She's originally from Trinidad and was introduced to the wine by friends who worked in Jewish homes in New York.

Is that Manischewitz? The Kosher wine is a hit in some Caribbean communities.

Food

The reason why some people of Caribbean descent enjoy a Jewish staple over the holidays.

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Some Puerto Rican college students displaced by Hurricane Maria have already started classes again — in Florida

Education

Estimates range from the hundreds of thousands to a million who will leave Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

Ernst Baptiste, coach of the Little Haiti Football Club boys team, directs his players onto the field to start drills.

Coaching kids from Haiti all the way to college

Education

Some kids from Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood may not have considered going to college. But their soccer coach pushed them all the way through high school. Now 14 of his players are on their way to college. With scholarships.Some kids from Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood may not have considered going to college. But their soccer coach pushed them all the way through high school. Now 14 of his players are on their way to college. With scholarships.

The isles just north of the Venetian Causeway, pictured here, feature some of the ritziest properties in Miami. Some of them bought anonymously through shell companies.

Florida is apparently an easy place to set up shell companies if you’re a foreign investor

Business

Support for stricter regulation of foreign investment is growing in Florida after the Panama Papers revealed abusive practice of opening shell companies.

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