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• Across the country, cloud kitchens or ghost kitchens are popping up. Driven by the rise in food delivery apps, they are kitchens for delivery only restaurants and other concepts that don’t require a physical dining room.
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• Journalist Renata Sago teamed up with her mother, Kanika, for her latest project Black Mary: An Homage to Black Feminine Magic. This exhibit re-imagines Mary Poppins as a modern day black woman invoking joy and power in marginalized communities across the United States.
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• Talbert Gray broke barriers in 1969 as the first black newsperson on a commercial TV station in Florida. As a journalist he overcame discrimination to reach new heights and pave the way for young minorities to do the same.
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• The University of Central Florida has scheduled conservative podcast host Ben Shapiro to give a speech in March. The decision comes after Student Government approved a bill to pay for Shapiro’s visit with student funds.
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• For the first time in decades, Hal Boedeker doesn’t have to spend his evenings watching TV. The Orlando Sentinel’s long time TV and media critic said goodbye to the newspaper at the end of last month. 90.7’s Matthew Peddie spoke to Hal about his life as the TV Guy and what comes next.
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• A monument dedicated to four black men wrongly accused of raping a white woman will be unveiled Friday at the historic Lake County courthouse in Tavares. The ceremony marks a milestone in a fight to bring justice to the so-called Groveland four.
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• February 2nd marked one year since the suicide of Transportation Security Administration officer Robert Henry at Orlando International Airport. In the 12 months since Henry’s death, TSA has instituted changes to address those concerns, both across the agency and at MCO. But have those changes been enough?
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