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Amid the chatter, shenanigans and silliness that is the Real Housewives TV franchise, comes a moment of real import.

And there's a Miami-Dade connection.

North Miami Senior High School student Deandre Chery recalls speaking to inmates at a trip to a prison with the 5000 Role Models of Excellence Project.

This week I received a 100 percent rating from the Humane Society, which scores members of Congress on legislative issues related to threatened and endangered species.

Spurred by the flashpoint of Ferguson, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch is bringing her "community policing tour" to Miami to laud local law enforcement agencies for mending frayed relations with neighborhoods that have been seething for years over police-involved shootings and rampant gun violence.

The new year has barely begun, but gun violence in Miami-Dade has already claimed the lives of at least three teens.

On Friday, national and local leaders rallied in a call to keep kids safe through more mentoring programs that keep students in school, and by passing tougher gun laws and protections for witnesses.

Miami-Dade County on Friday threw its support behind President Obama's campaign to save young men of color, just as the nation's new education chief launched a complementary campaign to reduce chronic absenteeism among students.

Angela Johnson came to the Betty T. Ferguson Recreational Complex armed with a notepad to take notes during former President Bill Clinton's speech.

Today marks a dark moment in Nigeria's history. On February 24, 2014, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram killed 59 boys at the Buni Yadi secondary school in Yobe state. That same year, Boko Haram killed enough people to earn the title of the "world's deadliest terrorist group."