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Miami Herald
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
The 44 Percent: Youth mentorship, Kendrick Lamar, A'ja Wilson steps up
Not everyone knows the history of Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette Moore. But earlier this week, more than 120 Miami-Dade County Public School students from Miami Edison Senior High, Miami Northwestern Senior High, Miami Jackson Senior High, and William H. Turner Technical Arts High learned a brief history of the Moores and their untimely deaths. The Marshall L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center, in partnership with the Miami Herald and Miami-Dade County Public Schools, held a Black History Month event, Courageous Voices: The Moore Legacy, dedicated to learning the Moores' story. Students listened to a discussion from activist and former professor Marvin Dunn about the history of the Moores, civil rights activists in Florida who died in their home from a bomb placed by members of the Ku Klux Klan in 1951. The discussion is important as we're seeing increasing efforts to limit how Black history, especially local Black history, is taught in schools and as companies scale back their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts nationwide. One person, Nakia Bowling, is leading the effort in ensuring young Black children know their history through the Art of Transformation after school program, which offers myriad activities for students and 'required reading' books from the likes of Toni Morrison and others. It's likely the programming Black students needed. INSIDE THE 305: This Miami native wants to teach Black students things they might not learn in school Race and culture reporter Raisa Habersham wrote about how Miami native Nakia Bowling is using an after school program to support and educate Black schoolchildren. On a breezy February afternoon, a cacophony of sounds can be heard from the Miami Shores Elementary School with soaring sights to match: Students in the Art of Transformation after school program are busy doing acrobatics from aerial silks, learning dance steps in the bandroom, working on art projects or building sail cars, which are powered by wind, in their STEM class. This is the vision Nakia Bowling has for young Black children in the communities she services. 'I wanted activities you typically don't find in communities of color,' she said. 'A dictatorship of indifference': Haitian priest outraged over treatment of immigrants WLRN reporter Wilkine Brutus wrote about how a Little Haiti priest is concerned about how immigration policies have scared many families into not attending church services. On a recent Sunday morning, the Haitian congregation at the Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church in Miami's Little Haiti, sang the lyrics 'Glory to our God in heaven.' Presiding over the flock of followers was a familiar face: Father Reginald Jean-Mary, well known as Father Reggie, a prominent local Haitian-American Catholic priest. These days Father Reggie is especially worried. He notes that on this particular Sunday that hundreds of fewer parishioners are seated for a second service. And he's sure he knows why the church pews are empty: Many immigrant families are hiding in fear of President Donald Trump's aggressive deportation plan. OUTSIDE THE 305: Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl performance was far deeper than rap In his Herald opinion piece, Dolphins reporter Omar Kelly described how musician Kendrick Lamar's polarizing Super Bowl halftime show was about much more than rap music. Kendrick Lamar wasn't performing music on the world's biggest stage. He was administering a lecture in code that was aimed at mainstream America. The Pulitzer-winning hip-hop legend delivered a tutorial in song on what it's like to be black in America during his Super Bowl halftime performance on Sunday night. It's a complicated discussion not everyone can digest, but Lamar's performance and show illustrated how being a person of color in America is a game (his set was a Playstation joystick controller) we're all trapped inside, and forced to play. 'The Revolution is about to be televised,' Lamar said after delivering a freestyle of an unreleased song in the first minute of his 15 minute show. 'You picked the right time, but the wrong guy.' A'ja Wilson Debuts Her Long-Awaited Nike Signature Shoe After years of speculation, three-time WNBA MVP A'ja Wilson's shoe is coming out very soon. ELLE reporter Adrienne Gaffney spoke to the women's basketball phenom about the details of the shoe and more. A'ja got her shoe. On Monday, the Las Vegas Aces center unveiled her signature Nike A'One in Columbia, South Carolina, the capital city where she both grew up and played her college career. The moment came as the coda to a touching weekend that also saw Wilson return to the University of South Carolina to see her number 22 jersey retired. Fans of the three-time MVP have been eagerly awaiting the shoe—it was so anticipated that when she announced it was in development in May 2024, she wore a sweatshirt that read, 'Of Course I Have A Shoe Dot Com,' a URL that redirected to the announcement on Nike's website. But they are going to have to wait just a bit longer—the shoe will officially be released this May. 'I felt like, for once in my life, I didn't have to just pinpoint one thing. I could literally have it all,' Wilson, a self-described fashion girl, told me during our sit-down backstage at the A'One unveiling. HIGH CULTURE: Rastafari Day and Drum Circle at NoMi Village This Saturday, Rastafari Day and its drum circle will continue the Reggae Month celebrations in South Florida. The free event is from 4-10 p.m. and features live performances from several reggae artists like Big Youth. For good vibes this weekend, visit NoMi Village at 12351 NW Seventh Ave., North Miami. Where does 'The 44 Percent' name come from? Click here to find out how Miami history influenced the newsletter's title.
Miami Herald
05-02-2025
- Miami Herald
Family of beloved Northwestern teen stabbed to death wants accused killer behind bars
Only a few days before Christmas, a teenage girl fatally stabbed another male high school student athlete while, she told police, they were 'horseplaying' late one night in the garage of his Little Haiti apartment complex. Last week after the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner ruled it a homicide, Jahara Malik, 17, was arrested and charged as an adult in the manslaughter of Yahkeim Lollar, a beloved student and football player at Miami Northwestern Senior High. Yahkeim was also 17. But it was a decision on Saturday by Miami-Dade family Circuit Court Judge Stacy Glick that galvanized the sides and attracted media attention, even some from abroad: Glick bucked the the state and the dead teen's family's wishes and agreed to release Jahara from jail after her family posted a $50,000 bond and she was fitted with an ankle monitor. That led to Tuesday's hearing in a packed chamber at the criminal courthouse before Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Christine Hernandez. And even as Hernandez pushed back Jahara's pre-trial detention hearing until Thursday afternoon — saying she needed to get a better grasp on Glick's decision — emotions ran high in and out of the courtroom. Prior to her decision, Miami-Dade Assistant State Attorney Kevin Betancourt told the judge the state's preference was that Jahara remain jailed. At his side and representing Yahkeim's family was civil rights attorney and former deputy director of the ACLU of Florida, Melba Pearson. Across from them and representing Jahara was defense attorney Larry Handfield and Miami-Dade County Commissioner and attorney Kionne McGhee. Handfield urged the judge to allow Jahara to remain free, saying she wasn't a danger to the community or a flight risk. Jahara and her family say the unfortunate death happened while the two were goofing around. Yahkeim's family blames his death on a jilted friend. 'She's going to jail. She's going to pay for what she did to my son because he didn't want to be with her,' Yahkeim's mother Nathalie Jean said in the hallway outside the courtroom, a large banner held up behind her by family and friends filled with mostly love notes to Yahkeim. Moments earlier, Handfiled had pointed out how Jahara called 911 and stayed there until an ambulance arrived, then willingly gave police a statement. 'I don't believe it's in the interest of justice for her to be taken back into custody,' he said. Fatal chest wound from 'horseplaying' says accused Just after 11 on the Friday night before Christmas, police said, Jahara called 911 saying Yahkeim had been stabbed on the third-floor garage of his apartment complex at Northwest Sixth Court and 61st Street. Paramedics found him with a knife wound to his chest. Efforts to save him by both paramedics and doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center failed. He was pronounced dead less than an hour later. Jahara agreed to go with police to headquarters for questioning. A few hours later, police reviewed surveillance video that showed Jahara and a friend getting out of a vehicle in the parking garage, Yahkeim bleeding from his chest and Jahara dropping a knife, police wrote in her arrest report. Police said Jahara told them Yahkeim agreed to meet after she went shopping at Dadeland Mall with a friend. She said she grabbed the knife because she couldn't find the pepper spray she usually takes as a safety measure when using a share ride. Police wrote in her arrest report that 'the defendant stated that she was horse playing with the victim.' Then they let her go. On Jan. 16, the medical examiner ruled Yahkeim's death a homicide and Jahara was taken into custody and transferred to the Juvenile Assessment center 12 days later. 'He was just the perferct kid' Outside the courtroom Tuesday, Yahkeim's aunt Zeldrina Beecham, a 31-year veteran with the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office, said she's seen people accused of trespassing spend more time in jail that Jahara. 'She murdered my nephew,' she said. A junior at Miami Northwestern who was taking mostly senior courses, Yahkeim was described as sweet and sincere. He was dedicated to football and video games. Family and friends held a memorial after his death outside Yahkeim's apartment complex. Balloons filled the air. Pictures leaned against walls. Scented candles sent light plumes of smoke toward the sky. Low key and still visibly shaken, Yahkeim's dad Darveed Lollar spoke briefly Tuesday. 'He was just the perfect kid in my eyes,' he said.
