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My maternal grandparents, Sam D. and Ida Ellen Roberts Johnson, were born in Harbour Island, Bahamas. It is believed that their foreparents were among the…
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For me, the most important journeys have led to South Florida. The journey that started in December 1959 involved a move from Cuba, north to freedom.…
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My father, Ernest Peyton Jones, worked for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was his campaign manager for the southeastern United States and became the…
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Miami boasts, of course, a reputation as a major clubbing center — but in decades past, the city is also where a big chunk of clubbing music actually got…
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I can imagine my dad's excitement leaving gritty Newark behind him and hitting the highway in his old Studebaker bound for paradise . . . Miami Beach. I…
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Our family came from Havana, a beautiful city that some have called a tropical paradise.My brothers and I came to Miami on a Pan American flight and were…
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I was born Martha Anne Peters in Victoria Hospital on Dec. 20, 1937, a second generation native-born Miamian.My daddy, Hugh Peters Jr., was born in the…
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I was born in Nashville and spent the first four years of my life in Tuskegee, Ala.My father, Dr. John O. Brown Sr., moved to Miami in 1955 to begin his…