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Swire Properties Inc will continue its commitment to the community and sustainable development with the launch of Home Grown, a multi-dimensional platform created to showcase the developer’s present and future commitments in the community. Through Home Grown, Swire Properties will create meaningful partnerships and charitable contributions...

MIAMI (WSVN) - Local radio station 99 JAMZ is helping fill a community need, and doing so in a fun way. The station’s annual Back to School Backpack Tour is back on the road, just in time to help South Florida students in need of supplies...

MIAMI – A group of high school students gasped when Michelle Obama walked into Miami's Overtown Youth Center. The former first lady visit was hours before her Friday night appearance at the BB&T Center in Sunrise to promote her memoir. During her promotional tour of "Becoming," she has...

High school students Hilairee Lubin and Andres Arcia are working this summer for an accounting firm. They got their jobs as part of a program that links youths ages 16 to 19, many from the Overtown area, with work opportunities with summer employers. Hilairee, a rising junior at Booker T. Washington High School, works with the accounting team. The daughter of an accountant, she did not think she would like following in her mother’s footsteps until she started working at Gerson Preston.
MIAMI (WSVN) - Gun violence was the main topic of an annual event at the Overtown Youth Center that aims to help young men in the community. Jamari Wright, one of the young participants at Friday’s Save Our Sons program, said the event helps build relationships. “It makes me feel safe because I always can count on someone,” he said, “because they know me, and I know them.”