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As the immigration detention system flourished since the 1980s, it led to the creation of the private prison industry. The last episode of WLRN's podcast Detention By Design looks at the inextricable links between the two, and how, in turn, the picture has gone full circle in 2022, leaving us in a place very similar to the early days of Haitian and Cuban arrivals in Florida.
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PBC schools want to limit public comment, Black Coconut Grove history, and adopting pets this seasonPalm Beach County school officials are considering limiting public comment. The influence of Black Bahamians on Coconut Grove. Plus, before you go and adopt that pet for the holidays, there are some questions you should be asking yourself.
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Miami Beach prepares for another pandemic Spring Break. You may be paying a lot less for your flood insurance than you should be. And we hear from one of the photographers who was at Muhammad Ali’s final fight.
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COMMENTARYWhen the Bahamas closed its doors to American visitors this week – because of the U.S.’s catastrophic inability to control the new coronavirus –…
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COMMENTARYIt’s a mystery why the Trump Administration chose Miami this week as one of only two major U.S. cities to be sent “riot teams” as protests…
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FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMA — A few days after Hurricane Dorian, Amanda Kellowan rummaged through what was left. She had just spent 36 hours in the attic of…
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It's hard to wrap your arms around everything that happened 2019 in Latin America and the Caribbean. It's even harder to find any good news — from the…
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More than a month after Hurricane Dorian ripped through Mash Harbour in the Bahamas, the debris —smashed pieces of wood that used to be houses, cars…
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Parts of the island nation are still in ruins, thousands remain displaced and rebuilding efforts have only just begun. But locals and volunteers are making a difference.
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One woman turned her home into an ad hoc shelter for Haitians displaced by the storm and facing discrimination.
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Miami activists and a Hurricane Dorian survivor called on the Bahamian government Thursday to suspend immigration enforcement actions that threaten to…
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Tropical Storm Karen could perform a feat of mid-ocean acrobatics later this week and execute a clockwise loop that will take it toward Florida and the…