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Editorial: Racial-equity advocates in Greater Miami lead the way and win national applause The Miami Herald Editorial Board, The Miami Herald © Al Diaz/Miami Herald/TNS Demonstrators during a George Floyd protest in downtown Miami on Saturday, May 30, 2020.
In 2019, after 89 years, Miami Shores elected the first Black woman to sit on its Village Council. In fact, Crystal Wagar automatically became mayor because she was the top vote-getter. Two years, later, two more Black women one who now is the new mayor have joined her on the five-member council, along with a gay white man. This is a welcome evolution. I think we had something to do with that, said Roni Bennett. A Shores resident, Bennett, a former tech businesswoman in Silicon Valley, co-founded South Florida People of Color, an organization created specifically to make sure that leadership elected and appointed better reflected the demographics of the city. Bennett, at the time, was campaigni