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Candidate recommendations for August 18 elections
The Miami Times / Miami Times Editorial / Aug. 12, 2020
For the U.S. House of Representatives
District 24
Frederica Wilson
The contradicting Black experience
Miami Times / August 5, 2020
Today in Miami, one in three Black residents is an immigrant.
For at least the past few decades, Miami's African Americans have been mingling with Haitians as they have moved into the neighborhood, with Jamaicans working in local hospitals, with Trinidadians in area schools, and with Bahamians holding public office.
Delegation for 1.12.21: Impeach again — Twitter — new PPP — unity? — mystery texts
Florida Politics / January 12, 2021
'Too much to lose.' Why a Miami man moved into a backyard tent during coronavirus crisis
Miami Herald / Carlos Frías / April 2, 2020
Rain dripped into his tent and woke John Delgado before the sun.
As voters, black women are important to Democrats. As candidates, where's the support?
Miami Herald/ Brian Murphy and Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan / February 24, 2020
The votes of black women propelled Democrats to historic victories in the 2018 midterm elections and helped elect the most racially diverse Congress in U.S. history. And their votes will be critical to helping Democrats win elections in 2020 in North Carolina.
The group of U.S. House Democrats asking the chamber's leaders not to include environmental permitting changes in a stopgap spending deal this month comprises 76 members, including senior leaders of budget and spending committees and factions across the caucus' ideological spectrum.
The 76 signers on a letter sent late last week make up a third of the House Democratic caucus, which currently stands at 219.
Haitians crossing the southern border of the United States without proper documentation are being subjected to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill treatment that amounts to race-based torture, Amnesty International says in a new report marking the first anniversary of the migration crisis at the U.S.
Last week, U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., introduced the "Lowering Obstacles to Achievement Now (LOAN) Act."
Today, Higher Education and Workforce Investment Subcommittee Chair Frederica Wilson (FL-24) introduced the Lowering Obstacles to Achievement Now (LOAN) Act to lower the cost of college for current and future student borrowers and their families. The new legislation builds on President Biden's historic one-time student loan debt relief announcement last month to forgive up to $20,000 in outstanding federal student loan debt for millions of borrowers.
Miami attorney Markenzy Lapointe, a former U.S. Marine and federal prosecutor who was raised in Haiti and Liberty City, was nominated Thursday by President Joe Biden to become the next U.S. attorney in South Florida.
If confirmed by the Senate, Lapointe, 54, would become the first Black lawyer to serve in the most powerful federal law enforcement position in South Florida.