More than a decade after 9/11, heightened security at U.S. airports has become routine, yet some religious and minority groups say they're unfairly singled out for even more screening. Well, now there's an app for that.

The mobile app is called FlyRights. Travelers who suspect they have been profiled take out their smartphone, tap a finger on the app and answer about a dozen questions. Then they hit "submit" and an official complaint is filed immediately with the Transportation Security Administration.

The app is the work of civil rights groups led by The Sikh Coalition. Amardeep Singh, co-founder of the Coalition, says the idea came from Sikh entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who felt they were being stopped unfairly at airports, too often.

"They literally said to one of our staff members, 'There should be an app for that'," Amardeep said. "We thought, great idea, let's start working on it."

The app has already been tested with the TSA. Amardeep hopes the app will encourage more people to file complaints so that there is more accurate data on improper screening.

Stripped Of Dignity

Hardayal Singh has a long, black beard and wears a dark olive turban. He's the director of United Sikhs, a human rights advocacy group — but he isn't related to Amardeep by blood; most Sikh men share the name of Singh.

Many Sikh men — and some women — also wear turbans, called dastaars, to cover their kesh, or uncut hair. Hardayal says the turban is meant to serve as a symbol of equality and justice, but at airports, turbans lead to extra scrutiny.

The South Florida Princeton Prize for Race Relations Committee has awarded a thousand dollars each year to high school students in the greater Miami area.  This year, a high school junior from Tamiami won the top prize. 

Walford Campbell is a junior at Miami's Belen Jesuit Preparatory School. 

On a school trip last year with his A.P. U.S. History class, Walford heard from Holocaust survivors during a "youth Day" event at the Miami Beach convention center. There he met Holocaust survivor Sol Lipson. 

"He told me about his plight during the Holocaust and how he watched people die because of their faith and how they looked and that inspired me because he saw all these cruel things and evil things happen yet he never really gave up hope in mankind," Campbell said. 

At the end of the event, a woman took the stage. She told the students that it was now their turn to make sure something like the Holocaust never happened again. Walford took her words to heart. 

Belen Jesuit is a mostly white, Cuban and Catholic high school. Walford sticks out here because he looks different. He is one of about a dozen African-American students at the high school. Some of his classmates have told him that he is their first black friend. 

So he decided to start the Culture club at his school, a place where minorities could speak openly about their beliefs. 

In one recent meeting, the Culture club invited a Hindu student to speak. 

"People never really understood his religion so we invited him to club and he talked about Hinduism, what he believes in and how many of the times people that call him muslim or call him a terrorist is completely wrong and false." 

Walford says speaking at the club helped curb the number of comments toward the student.  

Jonathan Colan, chair of the South Florida Princeton Prize for Race Relations Committee said judges were impressed with Walford because he took the lessons of the Holocaust and related it to the racial and ethnic mix of Miami. 
 
"I think that schools need it, universities need it and even adults need it, because we can all work to improve our racial understanding to promote racial harmony," Campbell said. 

He says Belen is a very open and welcoming school, but he feels that barriers between different ethnic groups, stereotypes and prejudices have broken down since the club started.  

Over 300 daily newspapers nationwide have launched paywalls on their website. Last week, the South Florida Sun Sentinel became the first daily in the region to do so. Other South Florida papers may soon follow suit.

If you read The Sun Sentinel online and don't subscribe to the paper -- by now, you may have already passed your limit of 15 free articles per month. On April 9, the paper began charging $2 a week to access content on its website. Mary Helen Olejnik is the community programs development manager for The Sun Sentinel.

"We're going to keep the number internal, but we're pleased with the response," Olejnik said.

Other South Florida papers -- including The Miami Herald -- are monitoring the paywall initiative carefully. Eric Weiss is an online editor at The Palm Beach Post. 

Clay Clifton is the digital manager at The Palm Beach Post.

"They're our competitor but they're also our partner in that we share content," Clifton said. "They're also a fellow newspaper so it'll be interesting to see how a newspaper in South Florida fares under a paywall."

The Palm Beach Post has a content-sharing agreement that allows them to publish full articles from the Sun Sentinel in their newspaper. But when it comes to website, since the paywall launched, The Palm Beach Post editors have published fewer articles from The Sun Sentinel on its website. Editors there say readers don't like to be teased with two paragraphs and then be redirected to another website to read the rest of an article.

The South Florida Business Journal, charges for online content, and says it has been doing well. Editor Kevin Gale, who used to work at The Sun Sentinel, says the newspaper industry is still exploring how to make money online.

"Journalism is like any other product," Gale said. "There are very few free lunches in the world and I think this is the first step but we're only in the initial phases so we'll have to see how it works out."

Matthew Krotzky of Hollywood used to work as a reporter for The Sun Sentinel. But he says even he won't be signing up for the subscription plan. He says the paper doesn't do a good enough job covering his neighborhood.

"I covered the city of Boynton Beach and I was competing against the reporter from the Palm Beach Post," Krotzky said. "And today, Fort Lauderdale, which is right in the Sun Sentinel's backyard has one reporter and that's it."

Krotzky says he doesn't think charging for access will solve the economic problems facing newspapers. But like everyone else, he has only one option: to wait and see.