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Three young historians with a long family history in Key West are highlighting the island's Black history in a video made for a Virginia museum.
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The images on display at the Key West Art & Historical Society's Custom House Museum show people who worked for the Overseas Railroad as it was nearing completion, and who lived in Key West when the island was South Florida's biggest and most prosperous city.
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The 13 men from Key West honored by the new memorial were among the nation's first Black marines and enlisted to fight in World War II - then faced bigotry when they returned to their island home.
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The clock from the terminal of the Overseas Railway in Key West recently returned to the island after 50 years on the mainland — and is now back in the possession of the local museum that owned it all along.
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After the Seminole Tribe of Florida spent years pushing the National Museum of Natural History to return human remains to the tribal nation, the museum finally changed its official policy on repatriations.
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Around the country, monuments celebrating Confederate leaders and slaveholders are being removed from public spaces. Key West has a Confederate memorial in a city park — and now a city commissioner wants to change its name.
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Buried in last week's historic U.S. Supreme Court decision, that once and for all established that employers cannot discriminate against anyone on the…
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A pair of bills seeking compensation for descendants of the 1920 Election Day race riots in Ocoee will go before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday.…
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Near Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, the Bonnet House Museum and Gardens sits on 35 acres between the ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway. The land…
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Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried and state Rep. Geraldine Thompson, D-Windermere, want exoneration for the “Groveland Four,” expanding on pardons...
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More than 60 years ago, a committee was formed in the Florida legislature with the purpose of identifying and removing LGBTQ students and professors on…
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Maurice A. Ferré, the politician and businessman from an aristocratic Puerto Rican family who is widely regarded as the father of modern-day Miami, has…