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HistoryMiamiA 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. -
Amelia Orjuela Da Silva for The Miami TimesFor 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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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. -
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. -
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.” -
The Black Collective’s walking tour series traces the impact of gentrification and amplifies community voices demanding housing justice in Miami. -
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. -
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. -
Saints and Sinners cemeteries have been around for more than 100 years. Everyone buried there is Black. Now, they face a risk beyond erosion and the sinking of graves. A developer bought the 415 acres surrounding the land in 2022. -
For nearly a century, Miami’s Freedom Tower has stood as a silent witness to the city’s transformation — from a media hub to a sanctuary for refugees and now a living museum of cultural memory. As it nears its 100th birthday, the building is preparing to tell its own story anew. -
Malka “Mollie” Horwitz is the oldest living Holocaust survivor in Miami-Dade County. She lives in Miami Beach. Earlier this year, Miami-Dade commissioners declared March 16 as "Mollie Horwitz Day." -
Leslie Gelrubin Benitah's multimedia project aims to connect the last remaining Holocaust survivors with younger generations. What sets 'The Last Ones' apart from other testimonies is brevity: the 15-minute videos are aimed at reaching kids reared on social media.
