The next step is for Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava s administration to outline how the program will be rolled out. The commission will vote again when Cava returns with a plan in about two months.
According to Higgins, who sponsored the legislation, all Miami-Dade residents would be eligible to apply for community IDs. The ID cards would provide county residents with photo identification that they could use locally to access government services, open accounts with a credit union, do business at a check-cashing store, or provide as identification in an emergency.
For privacy reasons, the IDs would be administered by a community-based organization rather than by the county. The identities of people with community IDs would not enter the public record.
Other Black students in Ocoee will also be eligible for the funds. The scholarship will be a $305,000 recurring appropriation from the state s general fund and will be available indefinitely, according to Bracy.
In the days leading up to November 2, 1920, Ku Klux Klan members marched through Black neighborhoods in Ocoee, threatening Black residents not to vote. In defiance of the threats, Mose Norman, a Black Ocoee resident, made multiple attempts to reach the ballot box, but each time he was turned away by white poll workers.
After the polls closed, a mob of deputized white men carrying guns came in search of Norman, who was thought to have taken refuge in the home of his friend, Julius July Perry. Norman wasn t there, but Perry fought back, engaging in a gunfight with members of the mob. Perry was captured and taken to an Orange County jail, where he was later kidnapped, lynched, and left bullet-ridden and hanging outside the home of a federal judge who had advised him on vot
Little did he know about the impending global pandemic that would soon kneecap the music industry. But for Mikey Lion real name Mikey Leon being forced off his breakneck touring schedule and into quarantine with family in San Diego allowed him to finish the aforementioned debut,
Leon dreamed up the concept behind
For the Love in 2012 when he and his co-conspirators threw the first Desert Hearts party in San Diego. Alongside his brother, Porky, and their collaborators Marbs and Lee Reynolds, Leon wanted to create a judgment-free oasis built on the mantra “house, techno, love – we are all Desert Hearts.” The festival was created as a beacon of creativity and self-expression where weirdos of all stripes could put their eccentric antics on full display.