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Coral Gables green-lights renaming Dixie Highway for Harriet Tubman after voting no in January

Coral Gables green-lights renaming Dixie Highway for Harriet Tubman after voting no in January Samantha J. Gross, Miami Herald © JOE CAVARETTA/Sun Sentinel/TNS Traffic at a halt on Camino Real at Dixie Highway in Boca Raton, Fla., IN 2017.. MIAMI Months after rejecting a call to rename Dixie Highway after Harriet Tubman, the Coral Gables commission has finally joined nine other cities that support renaming a portion of the state road after the renowned abolitionist. The commission, which has two new members since it last took up the proposal, voted unanimously Tuesday to remove a significant roadblock to a Miami-Dade County initiative to add Tubman’s name to 42 miles of U.S. 1 that are also known as Dixie Highway.

Florida mayor rejected naming Dixie Highway for abolitionist. Now he's leading the charge

MIAMI Four months after he joined two other Coral Gables commissioners in voting to reject a proposal to rename Dixie Highway after Harriet Tubman, newly elected mayor Vince Lago has apparently changed his tune. Lago, only weeks into his tenure as mayor, has revived the same resolution he once opposed to rename a portion of the state road in honor of the renowned abolitionist. Should it pass .

Coral Gables Elects Rhonda Anderson, Kirk Menendez In Commission Runoff

/ The Miami Herald Rhonda Anderson and Kirk Menendez will be Coral Gables’ newest commissioners after beating their opponents in a runoff election to replace Mayor-elect Vince Lago and outgoing Commissioner Patricia Keon. Rhonda Anderson and Kirk Menendez will be Coral Gables’ newest commissioners after beating their opponents in a Tuesday runoff election to determine the successor for two elected officials who gave up their seats to run for mayor. Anderson will replace Commissioner Patricia Keon as the city’s Group III commissioner. And in the Group II race, Menendez will replace Mayor-elect Vince Lago, who defeated Keon in the April 13 mayor’s race.

A red wave followed Floyd protests in Miami. But activists want to revive the movement

A red wave followed Floyd protests in Miami. But activists want to revive the movement Bianca Padró Ocasio, The Miami Herald Apr. 22 Hours after a Minnesota jury convicted police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd, a group of Miami organizers and activists who advocate against police brutality and anti-Blackness gathered at their monthly general meeting, where they d planned to discuss Florida s new anti-riot legislation. But once the verdict came down a rare conviction of a police officer in the killing of an unarmed Black person local organizers with the Dream Defenders turned their attention to the historic decision, saying that Chauvin s conviction is reason to double down on the movement to shift resources away from police departments and pressure politicians who stand in their way.

Whatever the results, Gables runoff election Tuesday will change the city commission