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He Served As Barack Obama’s Inaugural Poet, Now He’s Hosting A Virtual Writing Workshop At MDC
by Heidi Perez on Jun 16th, 2020
  
  • Briefing
  
  • workshop
  • MBF
...Cuban American poet Richard Blanco, who served as Barack Obama’s inaugural poet in 2013, will present a five-day virtual writing workshop starting July 27 through Crowdcast.  The workshop, Poetry: The...
President Obama Proposes Tuition-Free Community College
by Daniela Hurtado on Feb 3rd, 2015
  
  • News
  
  • community college
  • President Barack Obama
...President Barack Obama is championing education this year with a new proposal to make community college tuition free for students who earn good grades and stay on track to graduate. “Keep in mind 40 percent...
How Relations With Cuba Can Be Good
by Gabriel Exposito on Apr 18th, 2016
  
  • Forum
  
  • Cuba
  • Human Rights
...Sunday grocery shopping recently when I overheard a group of older men talking about President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba and the change of policy toward the island nation. One man screamed that Obama...
Photo Briefing - February 5, 2013
by The Reporter Staff on Feb 5th, 2013
  
  • Photo Briefing
  
  • LGBTQ+
  • Journalism Speaker Series
...Presidential Inauguration took a moment to pose with their signs before the swearing-in of President Barack Obama on Jan. 21 in Washington, DC. DONNALYN ANTHONY / THE REPORTER Storytelling: David Ovalle, who...
Music Professor Incites “Twitter Mob” With Controversial Obama Tweet
by Riane Roldan on Jan 18th, 2017
  
  • News
  
  • Professor Spotlight
...is facing backlash on social media after a controversial New Year’s Day tweet about President Barack Obama’s citizenship prompted dozens of Twitter users to demand his dismissal from the College. Calle’s...
Trump Decides To Rescind DACA
by Katherine Wallace-Fernandez on Sep 23rd, 2017
  
  • News
  
  • Donald Trump
  • Trump
...support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.  The policy—an executive order by Barack Obama in 2012—allowed more than 800,000 undocumented young people, brought to the United States by their...
Pumariega Celebrated During Presidential Investiture Ceremony
by Ammy Sanchez on Dec 11th, 2021
  
  • News
  
  • Madeline Pumariega
  • Presidential Investiture Ceremony
...was a star-studded affair that included Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco, Florida District 24 Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, Florida District...
Homestead Campus To Host Famed Miami Poet Richard Blanco During Virtual Event
by Juan S. Gomez on Oct 4th, 2021
  
  • Briefing
  • Homestead Campus
  
  • Poetry
...public speaker, author of 13 books and a civil engineer. In 2012, he was selected by President Barack Obama to be his inaugural poet. He was the youngest, first Latino, immigrant and openly gay person to...
100th Issue Of The Reporter
by Maria Vizcaino on Feb 11th, 2017
  
  • News
  
  • The Reporter
...Campus Bureau Chief, 2010-2011 Current job: Morning anchor at WSVN 7. Story description: President Barack Obama announced as commencement ceremony speaker for the North and West Campus’ graduation ceremony...
Juneteenth Becoming A Federal Holiday Celebrates Progress And Freedom
by Manuela Aguirre Franco on Jun 28th, 2021
  
  • Forum
  
  • Juneteenth
  • civil rights
...price of freedom. We should never go back to treating people the way slaves were treated.  As Barack Obama once tweeted: “ a celebration of progress. It's an affirmation that despite the most painful parts...
Wolfson Archives Preserves South Florida’s History One Image At A Time
by Carolina Soto on Jun 16th, 2021
  
  • News
  • Wolfson Campus
  
  • Wolfson Archives
  • History
...after visiting Miami for the first time in 1964, and former MDC President Eduardo J. Padrón with Barack Obama in 2003 when the then Illinois senator visited the Miami Book Fair after publishing his first...
Eduardo J. Padrón Receives 2020 Outstanding Floridian Award
by Ashlie Rodriguez on Nov 17th, 2020
  
  • Briefing
  
  • Eduardo J. Padrón
...education, earned him a Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded by former United States President Barack Obama. In 2019, the Interamerican Campus was renamed as the Eduardo J. Padrón Campus in his honor....
This Top Ten Song List Will Have You Feeling Good This Summer
by Carolina Soto on Jul 2nd, 2020
  
  • A&E
  
  • Music
  • Summer
...Let’s Go Surfing by The Drums Let’s Go Surfing was written to show the band’s excitement after Barack Obama became President of the United States in 2009. It’s uplifting lyrics and tempo will motivate you...
Miami Dade College Sets The Stage For Book Lovers’ Paradise
by Alexander Gomez on Nov 1st, 2019
  
  • News
  • Wolfson Campus
  
  • Wolfson Campus
  • Books
...Trump’s presidency on American politics and society. Reid previously wrote two novels—Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the Racial Divide and We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama—that...
Miami Dade College Professor Campaigning To Exonerate Black Activist
by Jonathan Munoz on Apr 8th, 2013
  
  • News
  
...College Prep Department at North Campus, started a petition addressed to Congress and President Barack Obama in an effort to exonerate Marcus Garvey,founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association...