PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – On the latest This Week in South Florida podcast, hosts Michael Putney and Gienna Milberg are joined by Florida state lawmakers Daniel Perez and Gary Farmer, Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce President Eric Knowles, Broward County businessman Barron Channer, Department of Equity and Inclusion Director Jason Smith, and South Florida constitutional law attorney Bruce Rogow. Subscribe to the weekly TWISF Podcast on iOS or Android

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – On the latest episode of This Week in South Florida, hosts Michael Putney and Gienna Milberg are joined by Florida state lawmakers Daniel Perez and Gary Farmer, Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce President Eric Knowles, Broward County businessman Barron Channer, Department of Equity and Inclusion Director Jason Smith, and South Florida constitutional law attorney Bruce Rogow. The Full episode can be seen at the top of this page.

PEMBROKE PARK, Fla. – Last week launched what could be South Florida’s largest and most focused effort to increase the social equity and financial success for Black South Floridians. The South Florida Black Prosperity Alliance, which reaches across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, brings together more than a dozen civic, business and charitable organizations. Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce President Eric Knowles, one of the founders of the alliance, and Broward County businessman Barron Channer, a top executive in real estate management and development, joined This Week in South Florida hosts Glenna Milberg and Michael Putney to discuss, and their conversation can be seen at the top of this page.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Eric Knowles said there is strength in numbers, and this is why the new South Florida Black Prosperity Alliance will be making a difference. “We have to stand together ... Black businesses matter, Black education matters, Black health matters, Black seniors matter — 365 days a year, not just 28 days in February,” Knowles said referring to Black History Month. Rosalind Osgood an elected member of the Broward County School Board was also a speaker during the event. She is the chief executive officer of the Mount Olive Development Corporation, an arm of the historic New Mount Olive Baptist Church in Broward. Ad“We come together collectively and we begin to set a tone for Broward County to be an anti-racist county,” Osgood said.

Florida has more than 974,000 people of West Indian ancestry — a Caribbean category that excludes Hispanic nationalities such as Cuban. A conservative estimate for the number of Jamaican voters in Florida stands at 91,000, because many may not report Jamaica as their country of origin. Haitian voters are estimated at about 115,000. Shawn Myers, a voter in Broward County who is Jamaican American, said he would vote for Biden and Harris, just to unseat Trump. Omphroy said she identifies with Harris as a first-generation daughter of immigrants, and she also thinks the candidate is easy to like.