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Frank Wooden comes to work everyday to restore a historical, Black cemetery in Miami's Brownsville neighborhood. “When I’m coming here, I’m coming home again,” he says. This story comes from NPR's Next Generation Radio's Florida newsroom.
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The earliest version of Disney's most famous character, and arguably the most iconic character in American pop culture, will become public domain on Jan. 1, 2024 — after copyright on his first screen appearance expires.
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Veterans Day is a big deal at Frank C. Martin International K-8 Center in Richmond Heights in southwest Miami-Dade. The neighborhood was founded as a home for Black veterans returning from World War II. Every year, students at the school celebrate local service members.
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Ghost rumors at the glamorous venue began after a gangster was shot and killed at the hotel. During WWII it became a military hospital and after 1968, kids began to sneak into the shuttered building. After it was reopened as the Biltmore Hotel in 1987, ghost stories became a staple.
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Descendants of early Palm Beach County settlers will discuss rarely explored stories about how Black and white residents worked together to advance social causes, in a discussion at the Norton Museum of Art on Nov. 2.
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George Platt of Fort Lauderdale witnessed the bloody coup that started Augusto Pinochet's long, brutal dictatorship in Chile 50 years ago, on Sept. 11, 1973.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis has touted the state guard move as historical, yet one former military officer says state militias have a dark past that should not be overlooked.
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If the recent Silicon Valley Bank rescue was controversial, the Federal Reserve’s actions to stop a bank run in Havana 97 years ago seem scarcely believable. It is a once-confidential tale of millions of dollars in $5 and $10 bills sent barreling to Key West on Flagler’s Train to Paradise, before crossing the Florida Straits in a tense, liquor-soaked journey on a Cuban gunboat.
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At a time when state officials are restricting how race, identity and history can be taught, scores of students from across Miami-Dade County gathered to test their knowledge of the world's first Black republic. The Haitian History Bee is a celebration of culture and heritage that advocates say isn't taught enough in public schools.
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According to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Little Santo Domingo district in Allapattah is under threat — putting livelihoods and a unique cultural identity at risk.
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He had Ernest Hemingway for a neighbor, bought a Model T car with a New Deal job and served in the Pacific during World War II – but, as he hits another milestone birthday, one of Key West's oldest living Conchs doesn’t look a day over 90.
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House Bill 49 implements the recommendations of a task force approved by the Legislature two years ago to study the issue of abandoned African American cemeteries.