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The Florida Keys Council of the Arts has awarded more than $40,000 to local artists and arts organizations during its most recent grant cycle.

On a sunny Thursday afternoon filled with festivities, the Monroe County Commission, 16th Judicial Circuit Court, Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and local Constitutional Officers hosted the public for a grand

Cheers: To Project 9/11Up, a national program that can be seen in Key West as two, 8-ton pieces of concrete from the World Trade Center were brought to the Southernmost

“To the general public, it might seem like a buried history, but the Caribbean is so much more than tourism,” said Marlene Daut, professor of African American and African Studies and an expert on Haiti who helped create the new program on Caribbean literatures, arts and cultures. When Christopher Columbus arrived in the New World, he hit these islands first. Over the years and the subsequent trips that  Columbus and other Europeans made, the indigenous populations were almost entirely ext...