The Historic Lyric Theater in Overtown — an example of Black resilience — fell into disrepair. Here's how I worked to save it

Motivated by stories told to me in the 1970s and 1980s by pioneer residents of Miami’s Colored Town, now known as Overtown, I saved the historic Lyric Theater from destruction as an example of resilience in Black Miami during the 20th century.

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