By Tyler Banks Waking up in the morning can be one of the hardest tasks known to man. It’s the internal battle to shake off the zombie-like feeling to just sink into one’s mattress and fall into a deep slumber that every single person faces. One of the reasons we are told to wake up…
By Malique Lewis When two black men entered a Starbucks to wait for a friend to conduct a business meeting, the store’s manager said that they couldn’t wait in the vicinity because they didn’t purchase anything. The manager then proceeded to dial the police, and the two men were arrested, taken to a police station,…
By Dru Barcelo This past Tuesday, President Trump ordered an end to the Obama-era program known as DACA, which shielded young undocumented immigrants from deportation. President Trump is urging Congress to pass a replacement before he begins phasing out its protections in six months. Join us during tomorrow night's Twitter chat using #DACADreams and…
By Edysmar Diaz-Cruz MIAMI LAKES – Journalism and Law, two seemingly distinct fields, came together on May 4 as lawyers Peter Siegel and Alejandro Leiva, visited The Harbinger newspaper staff. The two spoke of their experiences at law school before becoming labor and employment lawyers at Greenspoon Marder Firm. In high school, Siegel took a…
By Jennifer Perez Students at Miami Lakes Educational Center (MLEC) have proved once again that Millennials are not the uninformed, apathetic generation people make them out to be. The Harbinger and Junior State of America (JSA) hosted a mock presidential debate and a mock senatorial debate four days before Election Day and the student audience…
Alumni Boris Sanchez visited MLEC’s journalism class and shared a few wise words about working hard, having “a relentless pursuit of greatness” and a “thirst for knowledge.”
Sanchez is a CNN Correspondent based in NY and is now moving back to South Florida to work out of CNN’s Miami bureau and be closer to family.
By Juanita Cardona Each year, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho holds a Student Roundtable. This is his opportunity to meet with students from across the region to speak to them, gauge their interests, share his vision and learn what it’s like to be a high school student in 2016. This year’s discussion took place at Barbara Goleman…
By Angelie Yglesias Journalism students at Miami Lakes Educational Center recently won a Skype call with Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer-prize winning author and opinion columnist for the New York Times, through his email newsletter contest. Kristof was raised in Yamhill, Oregon; a place that he describes as “in the middle of nowhere.” Through this middle of…
By Melissa Ricardo Florida International University plans to expand its main campus onto 64 of the 87 acres of Youth Fairgrounds. In order to do this, they will have to relocate the Youth Fair to a piece of land that is equal to or larger in size compared to its current location. FIU plans to take…
Inspired by Brandon Stanton’s “Humans of New York”, “Humans of MLEC” will be an attempt to get to know the people that work to run Miami Lakes Educational Center. These are their stories.