Hey party people!
Writing you from Chicago where many of the Miami Herald’s Black journalists are attending the National Association of Black Journalist conference.
I didn’t want to leave you hanging so here’s a shortened version of the newsletter. Enjoy!
INSIDE THE 305
Florida wants to build a Black history museum. Opa-locka wants it to be there
Herald reporter C. Isaiah Smalls II wrote about how Opa-locka could potentially be home to a Black history museum.
Opa-locka is changing.
For the last few years, the city has hosted the Art of Transformation exhibit during Miami Art Week to attract the early December arts tourists. Then there’s City Terrace, a mixed-use neo-Moorish development that will feature approximately 1,000 units of mixed-income housing, up to 70,000 square feet of commercial/retail space and community green spaces. As Miami’s redevelopment races forward and its status as an arts hub snowballs, Opa-locka appears to be ready to get in on the action. And its latest effort is trying to get the Florida Museum of Black History to make its home there.