Harlem Renaissance in Miami
A three-part public history teach-in series by Black Miami-Dade, in collaboration with Sweat Records, exploring the Harlem Renaissance’s impact on Miami through Josephine Baker, Cab and Blanche Calloway, and Miami-born drummer Panama Francis.
Black Miami & Queer Storytelling
Black Miami-Dade spotlights a recent academic publication by founder Nadege Green and photographer Vanessa Charlot on LGBTQ+ Black Miami history, “Haitian Daughters of Memory: Queer Storytelling in Miami,” published in the Journal of Haitian Studies.
Bad Poems Return: Poetry & Memory
Black Miami-Dade presents a community poetry revival centered on a poem written about Black Miami by Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes. Hosted at Books & Books, the gathering brings together poets, readers, and community members to explore poetry as archive, memory, and collective voice.
Miami’s Haitian History on PBS
Black Miami and Haitian history are featured on PBS as part of Great Migrations: A People on the Move, a four-part series by Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., highlighting stories of migration across the Black diaspora. Black Miami’s Dade archival collection is included in the Black immigration episode.
Archiving Black Miami-Dade
Making Black Miami's visual history accessible through a community archival practice.
langston hughes’ miami poem
Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami resisting the Ku Kluk Klan in 1939. In a recent community speakeasy and teach-in, we invited members of our community to write their own poems of resistance.
give them their flowers
Black Miami-Dade presents a first of its kinds exhibit of Miami’s Black LGBTQ+ history. Through oral histories, portraits, archives and memory, Miami’s Black queer past and present take its rightful place.
Miami Gun Violence anthology
An anthology documenting the impact of gun violence in Miami-Dade edited by Black Miami-Dade founder Nadege Green.
Miami’s Black Women Health Pioneers
Black women are pioneers in the health field in Miami, Florida and historically played critical roles in positive health outcomes for the community while fighting against racism.