Hialeah, the Florida city where 94 percent of the population identify as Hispanic or Latino, recently explored the possible annexation of several predominantly African American communities but abandoned the plan.
Alarmed by the takeover threat, those neighborhoods are demanding that the Miami-Dade County Commission allows them to establish their own city.
Meanwhile, the commission, in choosing a name for an imposing new courthouse, settled on a Cuban American, Osvaldo Soto, who led the campaign to repeal an English-only ordinance…