Audrey M. Edmonson is challenging her friend Rep. Frederica Wilson to represent Florida’s 24th Congressional District. On Thursday, Wilson said “it’s fun” to her.

MIAMI – Stephanie McKay was among the first mourners to arrive Wednesday at the public Simonhoff Floral Park in Miami’s Liberty City neighborhood. McKay was there to add her mother’s name to one of the hundreds of white plastic tombstone-shaped pieces that are part of a temporary memorial to Miami’s victims of the coronavirus pandemic. Her mother, Nellie Mae McKay, died in August after suffering from severe COVID-19 symptoms in a hospital bed for about three weeks. “We chose Liberty City for the memorial cemetery because this pandemic has also exposed inequities that make Black people and other people of color more vulnerable to COVID-19,” Wilson said. The temporary installation in Liberty City aims to use the 500 tombstones to allow Miami-Dade residents to add their loved ones' names until November.

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade County commissioners voted Tuesday to rename a portion of Northeast 16th Avenue as Trayvon Martin Avenue in honor of the 17-year-old who was fatally shot in February 2012, the office of Commissioner Audrey Edmonson confirmed to Local 10 News. The portion of Northeast 16th Avenue that will be renamed runs from Ives Dairy Road to Northeast 209th Street. Martin, who lived in Miami Gardens with his mother, was visiting his father in Sanford at the time of the shooting. Zimmerman has since filed a lawsuit in Polk County against Martin’s family, their attorneys, prosecutors and the state for damages in excess of $100 million. His family has since created the Trayvon Martin Foundation to bring awareness and to end senseless gun violence.

(Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)MIAMI – To help the unemployed during the coronavirus pandemic, Farm Share of Florida is co-hosting two food distribution events on Friday in Miami’s Coconut Grove and Liberty City neighborhoods. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a survivor of COVID-19, Miami-Dade County Commission Chairwoman Audrey Edmonson and City Commissioner Ken Russell are scheduled to be at both events. The food distribution in Liberty City is from 10 to 11 a.m. at the Second Canaan Missionary Baptist Church at 4343 NW 17 Ave. The food distribution in Coconut Grove is from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Armbrister Park at 4000 Grand Ave.

MIAMI - Miami-Dade officials are reminding the public to be safe while enjoying the holiday weekend. They specifically want guns put away, stressing that celebrations and gunfire dont go hand and hand. "Gun violence continues to plague our community," Miami-Dade County Commissioner Audrey Edmonson said. Miami-Dade County commissioners, along with police chiefs, gathered Wednesday in Miami ahead of the holiday weekend, stressing their annual message: "One bullet kills the party." Officials want to make sure guns are put away and members of the community enjoy the Fourth of July peacefully while watching the fireworks.