Former Miami Heat center and current Heat executive Alonzo Mourning is ready to celebrate this weekend. Mourning and Tracy Wilson Mourning are hosting the Overtown Youth Center Miami’s “It’s All Overtown” 20th Year Celebration Platinum Affair on Saturday night at the newly constructed and redesigned OYC. “The fundraising event will commemorate two decades of service […]
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The bustling Overtown of my memory is gone. But has a comeback begun?
Overtown exhibit, gentrification in Little Haiti, and Breonna Taylor
Wednesday marked four years since Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police in Louisville, Kentucky during a botched raid at her apartment complex, and in that time, her family is still fighting for justice. That could come as the Justice Department prepares a third trial for Brett Hankison, who is facing federal civil rights […]
A major store, grocery, cruise line and housing are coming to Overtown. See the plans
A five-year effort to revitalize central Overtown, Miami’s first Black neighborhood but more recently a bystander to the city’s rapid rise, is nearing completion, bringing nearly 1,000 new jobs and several major businesses. A Target, Ross Dress for Less and Aldi are among stores coming to the Sawyer’s Walk mixed-use real estate development at 249 […]