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Longtime Carroll County educator and school board member Patricia Dorsey is being honored for her contributions to the field ...
The mural’s defacing galvanized the Overtown community, who called for more of a police presence around Dorsey Park, once home to the Negro Leagues’ Ethiopian Clowns.​ ...
On June 19, or Juneteenth as it's been termed, the monumental end to slavery in the United States is celebrated. Throughout history, countless enslaved individuals sought freedom guided by the wisdom ...
The defacing of Black murals at Dorsey Park undermines that effort, but I'm certain community leaders will not be deterred. As artist Kyle Holbrook, who founded the MLK Mural Project to empower ...
MIAMI (WSVN) - A mural honoring African-American history at Dorsey Park has been vandalized with racist graffiti, including a Nazi swastika and the N-word.
A mural honoring African American history at Dorsey Park in Miami's historically Black Overtown neighborhood was vandalized with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti over the weekend. The vandalism ...
MIAMI (WSVN) - After racist graffiti, including a Nazi swastika and the N-word, marred a Dorsey Park mural, community members and city leaders are coming together to stand united against hate and ...
Painted on the fences surrounding Dorsey Park in 2012, the public art project — led by the MLK Mural Project, Urgent Inc. and Touching Miami with Love — was also created to honor the cultural ...
That's why the historic designation for Dorsey Park is so important to us. We know that we must protect what remains,” she said. Williams also shared sentiments about the vandalism in Overtown.
The murals are along a fence at Dorsey Park, where Negro League teams once played baseball. The Marlins' home ballpark loanDepot park is just a few miles from the park.
Dorsey, 74, a current Carroll County Board of Education member, was given the Joseph R. Bailer Award from McDaniel College last month. ... College Park in 1999.