Miami Montage

By Kevin Reyes Christopher Columbus High School From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Ronald “Ron” Nahmod is clipping, styling and grooming hair at his Coral Gables barbershop, Hot Heads. But […]

By Yasmine Mezawi Miami Lakes Educational Center Growing up as a low-income student, Wilnic Gideon struggled to stay focused in school with no real support at home. With the help […]

By Kaylee Hilyer McArthur High School Ariel Sabillon wished he had cancer rather than HIV. “When I was diagnosed with HIV, I honestly thought it was the end of my […]

By Katya Gutierrez Coral Gables Senior High School Zaira Gonzalez prepared for her first high school PE class in a peculiar way. She left her sneakers and PE shorts in […]

By Joseph Sturgeon Cooper City High School Hundreds of thousands of working-class Americans cannot afford a hospital visit and about 530,000 families go bankrupt each year because of unexpected medical […]

By Yasmine Mezawi Miami Lakes Educational Center Shaika Surprize is one of six siblings who grew up without a father and spent years in the foster care system. She attends […]

Lukas Guerra Christopher Columbus High School At age 25, Gabe Howard spent four days in a psychiatric ward. He was diagnosed as bipolar. When released, Howard began experimenting with marijuana. […]

By Carson Merlo Saint Thomas Aquinas High School In an Instagram post shared in January 2019, actress and socialite Kim Kardashian uploaded a mirror selfie with a meal replacement shake […]

By Caroline Wheeler-Hollis Creekside High School Phoenix Alexis-Pierre has gone to public school in Miami-Dade County all his life. He took sex education in fourth grade, middle school and high […]

By Abigail TuschmanCooper City High School When a 5-year-old starts screaming and biting during a playroom argument over an action figure, the child often is labeled “troubled” or “temperamental.” But […]

By Daniel Gonzalez III Miami Lakes Educational Center Pinecrest Glades Elementary student Angelina Reyes, 9, remembers losing all her friends when she got into the gifted program. “I didn’t have […]