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Natalie La Roche Pietri / WLRNThis February marks 50 years since Congress recognized Black History Month. Recently, more than 300 Broward County high schoolers spent the day going deeper into learning how Black and Jewish activists came together to advocate for one another during the Civil Rights movement. -
Liberty City Historic Survey Plusurbia and Dade Heritage Trust/Miami TimesLiberty City was never just a neighborhood. It was a declaration. Platted in 1922 during the Florida Land Boom, the 80-acre community emerged when Black workers were building the city but had nowhere to live. Stretching between Northwest 62nd and 71st streets, it centered around Northwest 18th Avenue — then called Broadway.
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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. -
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. -
Hollywood is one of several cities across South Florida celebrating its centennial this year. Before Hollywood was founded in 1925, a segregated neighborhood called Liberia opened for Black residents. At the time, discriminatory Jim Crow laws denied them equal opportunities. -
The Hollywood hotel has followed the city's history — from inception to weathering storms and discrimination. 100 years later, as the city thrives, the historic venue's future hangs in the balance. -
A new exhibit at the HistoryMiami Museum explores the enduring legacy of the Seminole Tribe of Florida through a variety of art forms by Seminole artists, including textiles, wood carvings and basketweaving. -
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. -
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. -
State and local officials on Friday commemorated victims of communism at the historic Freedom Tower in Downtown Miami. -
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. -
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.
