Jazmine Santillana

News Producer at WINK News.

Jazmine Santillana

NBC News Group Inter/ FIU Graduate student

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Migrantes venezolanos en Colombia afectados por recortes de USAID (incluye video) - Caplin News

Casi 3 millones de venezolanos han llegado a Colombia en busca de una mejor calidad de vida. Cartagena ocupa la quinta posición con mayor número de personas provenientes del país vecino.

En la actualidad, se otorga un permiso de protección temporal conocido como PPT, como parte del proceso de regularización migratoria. Además, con la ayuda financiera de agencias norteamericanas, se les brindan capacitaciones para emprendedores, procesos de resocialización y entrenamientos para evitar ser víctimas del tráfico humano.
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Los barrios urbanizados de Miami son los más afectados por vivir en una “ciudad de cemento”

Sin árboles para protegerlos, los residentes de los vecindarios más urbanizados de Miami sufren los efectos del calor extremo.

Estas comunidades predominantemente minoritarias, como Allapattah y Liberty City, incluyen una gran cantidad de almacenes y concreto, con pocos árboles para ofrecer sombra. Expertos como Nkosi Muse, Ph.D., candidato en Ciencias y Políticas Ambientales de la Universidad de Miami, dice que aumentar las copas de los árboles es crucial para limitar el impacto del calor intenso.

Miami’s urbanized neighborhoods feel the brunt of living in concrete jungles

Without trees to protect them, residents of Miami's most urbanized neighborhoods suffer the effects of extreme heat.

These predominantly minority communities, like Allapatha or Liberty City, consist of warehouses and concrete with few trees to offer shade. Experts like Nkosi Muse, Ph.D., candidate in Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Miami, say that increasing tree canopies is crucial to limiting the impact of intense heat.

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“Tree canopies throughout Miami-Dade County have to increase,” Muse said. "If we want to cool neighborhoods equitably, we at least need shade."

Warm temperatures in Florida feel different from those in northern states. The large amount of moisture in the air prevents people from cooling themselves naturally through sweat.

According to Muse, heat is more than an ecological issue. The infrastructure seen in predominantly minority neighborhoods, where more immigrants live, also contributes to t
The Miami Times •

Congressional commission aims to keep Black men and boys alive and healthy

The Commission on the Social Status of Black Men and Boys (CSSBMB), led by Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson, met on July 27, 2023, in Washington, D.C., to begin discussing what to do about health disparities faced by Black men and boys in America.

Howard University is a key partner in the endeavor.

The CSSBMB was established in 2020 within the office of the United States Commission on Civil Rights with 19 bipartisan members. It aims to make change through policy recommendations.

“This commis
The Miami Times •

Career anti-smoking leader fights against menthol

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids officially named tenured public health advocate Yolonda Richardson as its first Black woman president and CEO this month. The international nonprofit organization champions health equity for marginalized communities across the United States.

Richardson’s law and public health background pushed her to dedicate her career to advocating for the well-being of millions. She has led efforts to implement effective tobacco control policies and is recognized as a global pu
The Miami Times •

50 years of hip-hop to be honored at South Florida Book Festival

The 2023 South Florida Book Festival (SFBF) honors five decades of hip-hop history this week with “WORD! Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop Culture.” The three-day event will take place at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) July 13-15, offering residents an intellectual, multigenerational exploration into the genre.

The free book festival intersects literature and visual and performing arts through dance and music workshops for young attendees. The opportunity to cr
The Miami Times •

Miami-Dade County makes changes to public transit system

Improvements to South Florida’s transit system are set to take place this month, and officials are providing advice to residents and tourists on how to travel safely within the state this summer.

According to Linda Morris, chief of service planning and scheduling at the Department of Transportation and Public Works in Miami-Dade County, summer brings slightly less traffic to the area as residents travel out of state. Morris and Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava encourage locals and v
The Miami Times •

Local goalkeeper headed to Women’s World Cup

A Little Haiti Football Club member and goalkeeper for Haiti’s national women’s team will head across the world to participate in the FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand this summer.

Nahomie Ambroise, 19, will represent both her home country and the Miami soccer club that’s been a source of support and camaraderie since she arrived in the United States in August 2022. She is one of 25 players preselected to join the Women’s World Cup team by Nicolas Delépine, Haiti’s national women’s
The Miami Times •

Black filmmakers share their stories and warn of writers’ strike consequences at ABFF in Miami Beach

The 27th annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) kicked off a week of festivities in Miami Beach with a star-studded red carpet. A long list of highly anticipated film screenings and film industry icons sharing their wisdom during panel discussions at the New World Center is following through June 25.

A few of the highlighted panel discussions included “The Lena Waithe Effect,” hosted by its namesake – 2023 ABFF Ambassador, actor, producer and founder of Hillman Grad Productions – who dove i
The Miami Times •

Teachers union pushes back against anti-education legislation

United Teachers of Dade (UTD) and local activists gathered at the Dr. Rolando Espinosa K-8 Center in Doral last week to push back against Florida’s anti-education and anti-freedom legislation.

Recent education bills restricting books about Black and LGBTQ+ history in school libraries and blocking diversity, equity and inclusion spending in higher education are at the forefront of their fight to create greater accessibility to education and safeguard individual freedoms.

Counties across South F
The Miami Times •

Civil Rights Lawyers toss Miami Times out of Hampton House meeting

Last Thursday was a stormy night in more ways than one in Miami, when a downpour delayed the start of a meeting at The Historic Hampton House publicized to start at 6 p.m. and from which The Miami Times was ultimately banned.

At least 50 people were expected, according to Hampton House board chair Jacquie Colyer, but just six arrived by 7 p.m. and turned the sea of chairs into an intimate discussion circle. The topic of conversation, “Hands Off Our History,” was organized by a group called the
The Miami Times •

Top picks from the American Black Film Festival

The 27th annual American Black Film Festival (ABFF) returns this week to Miami Beach, packed with original film screenings, panel discussions filled with star-studded talent, casting calls and awards.

Here are a few featured projects highlighting the Black experience on film and capturing Black actors in positive and unique roles. The festival takes place June 14-18 in various locations around South Beach.

“They Cloned Tyrone” premieres at ABFF’s red carpet opening night at 7:30 p.m. at the Ne
The Miami Times •

South Florida celebrates Juneteenth

More than 150 years after the last enslaved people in the United States learned they had been freed through the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, Juneteenth became a federal holiday, officially honoring a day that had already been observed for years and seen as an opportunity to share knowledge and cultivate understanding of Black history in the United States.

You can celebrate the nation’s second Independence Day at a long list of gatherings and events throughout South Florida; we’ve narrowed th
The Miami Times •

Teachers union pushes back against anti-education legislation

United Teachers of Dade (UTD) and local activists gathered at the Dr. Rolando Espinosa K-8 Center in Doral last week to push back against Florida’s anti-education and anti-freedom legislation.

Recent education bills restricting books about Black and LGBTQ+ history in school libraries and blocking diversity, equity and inclusion spending in higher education are at the forefront of their fight to create greater accessibility to education and safeguard individual freedoms.

Counties across South F
The Miami Times •

Black finalists on short list for Broward superintendent

The School Board of Broward County is moving to the final round of its search to fill the superintendent position with three candidates, leaving popular in-house applicant Valerie Wanza out.

Wanza has worked with the school district for more than 30 years, as a longtime educator and later as chief of the office of school performance and accountability, a role she assumed in 2015.

She briefly served as a “task assigned superintendent” after former Superintendent Vickie Cartwright received a hef
The Miami Times •

Juneteenth comes early

On June 19, 1865, a group of enslaved people living in Galveston Texas, learned that the Emancipation Proclamation had granted them their legally sanc­tioned freedom more than two years prior. They were the very last in the country to be made aware of their self-determination.

People have commem­orated Juneteenth and the days leading up to it for years, with music, dance, food and conversations about what it means to cel­ebrate it. In South Florida, the party’s already getting started.

Florida
The Miami Times •

Black LGBTQ+ history in South Florida

Critically-acclaimed visual artist Beau McCall highlights the Black LGBTQ+ experience and history in the United States through his first collage works exhibition, which includes dramatic and impactful images from the 1970s to the 1990s. The one-person show will be on view at the Stonewall National Museum, Archives, & Library in Fort Lauderdale June 2 to Sept. 8.

The New York-based artist is bringing the Beau McCall Collection to South Florida to share captured moments of the LGBTQ+ rights movem
The Miami Times •

Liberty City apartment residents accuse management company of illegal evictions and neglect

Residents of Liberty City’s Lincoln Fields Apartments were joined by community activists Monday to fight what they say are illegal evictions, and to demand improvements after experiencing what they describe as deteriorating and unsanitary conditions. They’re calling on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to investigate and take immediate action.

Lincoln Fields was built in the 1950s in the midst of redlining and segregation, and living conditions for its predominantly Black res
The Miami Times •

MOCA uplifts Black Southern artists

Two exhibitions with a focus on diverse artists from the American South have opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, where they’ll run through October 1.

One of them is “Lonnie Holley: If You Really Knew.” Originally from Birmingham, Ala., Holley dove into the world of art and music after having a chaotic upbringing marked by instability and sorrow. His art consists of sculptures made from everyday materials found in his surroundings that honor the people and places he’s known.
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