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A new documentary to premiere this month at the Miami Jewish Film Festival is shining a light on a forgotten legal battle that forced one of the world’s most powerful men to answer for his prejudice.
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The celebration at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park will be one steeped both in history and high-tech glitz, and will be a chance to get acquainted with an old friend — actually, the oldest structure in Miami-Dade County.
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For the WWII veteran and one of the last surviving officers of Miami’s historic “Negro-Only” Precinct, the centennial celebration this month, was more than a birthday. It was a community’s tribute to a man whose life has traced nearly the entire arc of Black Miami’s struggle for dignity, justice, and belonging.
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Okaloosa County officials announced Tuesday that they expect to sink the SS United States between Destin and Pensacola. The nearly 1,000-foot vessel shattered the trans-Atlantic speed record on its maiden voyage in 1952.
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State and local officials on Friday commemorated victims of communism at the historic Freedom Tower in Downtown Miami.
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A century after Hialeah's founding, a family in its historically Black neighborhood, Seminola, fights to keep its history alive and ensure it's recognized in the city's centennial year.
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Sixty-three years ago, President John F. Kennedy single-handedly brought the world back from the brink of nuclear war by staring down Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev over the Cuban missile crisis. At least, so goes a standard U.S.-centric interpretation of events.
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City commissioners have voted to find out who is buried at Evergreen and where they lie amid the 1,600 plots on 9 acres at 27th Street and Rosemary Avenue. But a visit to the city-owned cemetery shows that many gravestones are in poor shape, some sinking into the ground, making it impossible to see names.
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A team of excavators has found $1 million in treasure from a centuries-old Spanish shipwreck off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast.”
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The Black Collective’s walking tour series traces the impact of gentrification and amplifies community voices demanding housing justice in Miami.
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At 100 years old, Miami Dade College’s restored Freedom Tower turns exile and arrival into an interactive museum — with more than 350 oral histories, a recreated processing room and galleries organized around freedom, opportunity, home and love.
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The city of Miami will honor victims of the “13 de Marzo" tugboat massacre, which left 41 Cubans, including 12 children, dead after Cuban authorities attacked and sunk the vessel in the waters off the Cuban coast in the early morning hours of July 13, 1994.