Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America, has presented Miami Dade College with a check for $50,000 to provide scholarships for students at the acclaimed Miami Animation and Gaming International Complex (MAGIC), the Miami region’s premier animation and gaming educational facility.The partnership supports a fellowship and internship program for students currently attending the MAGIC program at MDC...

Miami-Dade County School Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman was awarded the 2019 Trailblazer Award by the Miami-Dade City/County Management Association and the Miami-Dade County League of Cities. The award is given annually in recognition of efforts by outstanding women in the community.This year’s award ceremony was held at Pinecrest Gardens in the Village of Pinecrest. The first ever recipient of the award was former Congresswoman Ileana...

EMMY Award-winning Miami Lakes kid Armando Bernal IV is back on TV with a new season of author James Patterson’s “Kid Stew” this May. A screening event with the cast is scheduled on April 27 at the Crest Theatre at Old School Square in Delray Beach, 51 N. Swinton Avenue. The “Kid Stew” cast returns for six new half-hour episodes. Pictured is the cast (back row, from left) Milena Rivero, Satine Sorensen, Luke Nappe and Blake McCall; (middle...

Miami-Dade County School Board Chair Perla Tabares Hantman was honored at the 2019 National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) Conference which took place at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Hantman received the “Long Life Educator Award” for making a difference in the lives of Florida’s bilingual learners and their families. Pictured (from left) NABE executive director Dr. Santiago Wood, Jose Marti...

In many of the great myths of old, the universe is depicted as a place where chaos and order, death and life are forever locked in battle. For anyone who has paused for a moment to consider their own existence, this struggle seems to be more than a myth, it represents our daily experience. We work hard to establish order around us, only to see chaos and death tear it down.  Two millennia ago, the Apostles likewise saw their expectations...