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-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.

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.

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.