{"id":283296,"date":"2026-05-25T03:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283296\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T03:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:51:09","slug":"south-florida-activist-politician-ruth-shack-dies-at-94-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283296\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida activist, politician Ruth Shack dies at 94: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 24, 2026 at 11:24 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Community leader and LGBTQ+ ally Ruth Shack has died at 94, the Miami Herald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/obituaries\/article315875124.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/obituaries\/article315875124.html\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In 1977, Shack, a member of what was then the Metro-Dade Commission, introduced and helped pass a measure that protected people from workplace housing and other types of discrimination based on sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shack served three terms as a commissioner and became head of the Miami Foundation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She said growing up Jewish and experiencing prejudice led to her stepping in to defend gay rights.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 24, 2026 at 11:24 PM MIAMI \u2014 Community leader and LGBTQ+ ally Ruth Shack has died at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-283296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}