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When hundreds of longshoremen and their families got together this week in Overtown with live music, vendors, and matching shirts, they weren't just celebrating any event 鈥 they were commemorating nearly a century of labor that built the "Cruise Capital of the World" in Miami.
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In a conversation with SA国际传谋's Tim Padgett on The South Florida Roundup, educators Dr. Tameka Bradley and Brian Knowles talk about the importance of Juneteenth in the context of an often politicized education system.
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If the recent Silicon Valley Bank rescue was controversial, the Federal Reserve鈥檚 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鈥檚 Train to Paradise, before crossing the Florida Straits in a tense, liquor-soaked journey on a Cuban gunboat.
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The new exhibit open in Concourse J tells the story of Glenn Curtiss, who founded the cities of Miami Springs, Hialeah and Opa-Locka after advancing air travel.
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Malka Horwitz was just 25 years old when she was separated from her young son and taken to the Vilna ghetto during World War II.
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This 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.
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Liberty 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 鈥 then called Broadway.
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It's said that Coral Gables founder George Merrick would take prospective investors to the top of the hotel鈥檚 tower so they could survey the surrounding land. He would convince them to move to Coral Gables and sell them plots after showing them the bird鈥檚 eye view.
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The South Florida benefit dinner for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum came on the same day that Israel recovered the last body of the hostages taken into Gaza after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
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The National Archives has selected the HistoryMiami Museum as one of only eight museums nationwide to host the 鈥淔reedom Plane National Tour: Documents That Forged a Nation.鈥
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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鈥檚 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 鈥 actually, the oldest structure in Miami-Dade County.