Black miami-dade is a Public history and Creative Studio that honors miami’s black past.

We use the power of history and storytelling to cultivate Public discussion and collective memory of miami’s rich black history.

“If we don’t tell it, no one will.”
— Dr. Enid Pinkney, Miami historian and preservationist.

FeAtured projects

Give Them Their Flowers: An Exhibit of Black LGBTQ+ Miami History

Give Them Their Flowers: An Exhibit of Black LGBTQ+ Miami History

Bad Poems: Poetry of Resistance, Defiance & Dissent

Bad Poems: Poetry of Resistance, Defiance & Dissent

The Black Bookshop—A Community Gathering

The Black Bookshop—A Community Gathering

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Much love to Black Miami elders who served and then came back to demand their home, Miami, do better by them. This is AJ Abdul-Hakeem born and raised in Coconut Grove. He had this to say: After attending predominantly Black schools for 11 years, I
Larry Little, a Miami football legend who grew up in Overtown, played for @miamidolphins for 14 years. He joined the team in 1969. A graduate of Booker T. Washington High, he was a member of the 1972 undefeated Dolphins and a two-time Super Bowl cha
Today is the last day the exhibit Demands: People Power in Miami will be up. Join Black Miami-Dade and @cjpmiami at the Little Haiti Cultural Center art gallery from 2 to 5pm to share space and to remember and celebrate how everyday people in South
A Black Miami mama going to cast her ballot with her baby circa 1965. #blackmiami #blackmiamidade #miamihistory #floridahistory #blackvoters
Black Miami Halloween edition from 1993 to 1986. Thank you @perpooka for sharing your parents with us 🎃
Have you ever driven by or been to the Wilkie D. Ferguson Courthouse in downtown Miami? The man it was named after was a Liberty City native and law graduate of Howard University (@howard1867). Ferguson made judicial history in Miami and was a be
And another one…come through Black Miami beauties, this really is a love letter to our aesthetic, Trakeya is checking from Seminola in Hialeah: I grew up in Seminola and went to Miami Springs Sr high graduated in 2000. I went to flea market U
Black Miami 90s beauty chronicles continue…the year was 1994. Jennifer Jenkins, AKA Jent from South Miami’s Lee Park Condominiums, “The Townhouses-THC,” was rocking a fresh french roll, stacked bangs with a peep of color and
Black Miami Beauty chronicles…the year was 1996 and the girls were getting stacks styled in so many different ways—with bangs, without, maybe a lil side swoop—the hairstylists were doing their THING! And of course all the beauty w

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