These are the Miami Herald Instagram posts you liked the most in 2025
Inside looks at new restaurants, anti-Trump protests and viral art pieces were among the South Florida stories that most engaged readers on the Miami Herald’s Instagram account in 2025.
So what stories got the strongest reaction from Miamians on the social media platform?
Here is our Top 5 from 2025:
5. ‘Queer prom’ for LGBTQ teens
In June, former education reporter Clara-Sophia Daly and visual journalist Al Diaz documented the first prom ever held at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, where LGBTQ students from around Miami gathered to let loose. The “queer prom,” as students were calling it, was organized by Safe Schools South Florida, a nonprofit founded in 1991 to support gay students.
4. Meet an Everglades influencer
In January, climate change reporter Ashley Miznazi profiled three Everglades influencers and showed readers how the social media personalities’ millions of followers were getting a look at pristine sloughs and isolated cypress stands, and coming face-to-face with all sorts of amazing wildlife. Miznazi’s video with Luca Martinez had more than 650,000 views on Instagram.
3. A death in ICE detention
In June, immigration reporter Syra Ortiz Blanes and investigative fellow Claire Healy reported on Isidro Perez, a 75-year-old Cuban man who died after three weeks in immigration detention in Miami. He had arrived in the United States in 1966 and was the fifth person to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Florida in 2025.
2. Judge orders Alligator Alcatraz to scale down
In August, investigative fellow Churchill Ndonwie reported on U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams’ ruling that barred the DeSantis and Trump administrations from bringing new detainees to Alligator Alcatraz and demanded the state scale down operations at the immigration detention facility within 60 days. That ruling ended up being short-lived.
1. Video shows North Miami man detained by ICE while taking out trash
In March, breaking news reporter Milena Malaver wrote about Eduardo Nunez Gonzalez, a Cuban national whose detainment by ICE while he was taking out the trash at his North Miami home was captured on a Ring security camera. The video had more than 16 million views on the Herald’s Instagram account.