On a June evening last year, Geryl Dennis stood in front of a room of more than 150 people at Hialeah’s Milander Center. Purple, black and silver decorations filled the venue. A ten-foot-tall marquee glowed with the number ‘100.’
He was taking the stage at a centennial celebration for Hialeah’s historically Black neighborhood, Seminola.
“Good evening, good evening, good evening. Gotta get grandma and grandaddy good right here,” said Dennis, setting up large cardboard cutout photos of his late family members. “Perfect seat in the house to make sure they see what’s going on right here.”…