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1 week ago | 
miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Bea L. Hines
A few days ago, as I listened to the morning news, the news anchors warned that “panic” shopping could happen because of the rising cost of some food items and paper products. They noted that food items, like rice and coffee, could cost the American consumers more because of Trump-imposed tariffs.
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3 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines
At 7 p.m. Monday, Sen. Cory Booker, the senior Democratic senator from New Jersey, started what would become the longest speech delivered from the floor of the U.S. Senate since Sen. Strom Thurmond’s filibuster opposing the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker finished his speech at 8:05 p.m. Tuesday, speaking 25 hours and 5 minutes. Thurmond, the fervent segregationist senator from South Carolina, spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes — 46 minutes less than Booker.
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3 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines
Is it me, or did President Donald Trump purposefully select the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to announce his overhaul of America’s elections, which will require proof of citizenship? Was he even aware of the Day’s significance to millions of free people around the world?
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines
During Women’s History Month, we pay homage to the great women of this country who helped to make it what it is today — and rightfully so.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines
Many of us have been taught from childhood that it is proper to respect the opinions of others, even when we don’t agree with them. We were also taught to be gracious to those who are guests in our home. To do so was just a matter of having good home training.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines
Sometimes when I read the Bible, I can see a parallel between things that happened during biblical times and what is happening in our world today. For example, at my church we recently finished a study of Jonah. I’m sure many of you are familiar with his story. He was the prophet who was instructed by God to warn the people of a certain country of their evil doings or be destroyed. Apparently, Jonah didn’t agree with God.
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2 months ago | 
miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” — Nelson MandelaThe words of the late Nelson Mandela seem to be more relevant today than they when he spoke them.
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2 months ago | 
miamiherald.com | Bea L. Hines
I am writing this column on Feb. 12, my 87th birthday. When I tell you that I am grateful to have reached this milestone in my life, please believe me. You can’t see it, but under this brown skin of mine I am tickled pink! Like all of you reading this column, my life has had been somewhat of a roller-coaster ride. Often, the ups have been very high, and the downs have been very low. But I’m here, “clothed and in my right mind.” That alone is a blessing.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Bea L. Hines
Bea Hines, the Herald’s first Black female reporter, celebrates her 87th birthday at the Miami Woman’s Club on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. She started at the Herald as a clerk in the newsroom library in 1966 and was hired as a reporter in 1970. Her first day as a reporter, June 16, 1970, she was assigned to cover a riot in Liberty City. Her story ran on the front page and she won a national award for it.
