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NEWS ABOUT THE GROVE
New high-rises and vanishing roots in West Grove
Climate change is gentrifying neighborhoods. In Miami, residents fear high prices — and a lost soul
GRACE: Winning the Battle, Still Fighting the War
At Long Last, a Grove United?
Justice for Old Smokey: What the Denial of Miami's Appeal Means for Victims
City of Miami to vote on new map, $1.5 million payment following 'racial gerrymandering' ruling
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CIVIL RIGHTS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS ANNOUNCE EXPECTED FINAL AGREEMENT TO RACIAL GERRYMANDERING LAWSUIT, IN WIN FOR VOTERS
​Black people in Miami deserve fair maps. All Miamians deserve fair maps, which is why we sued.
FEDERAL COURT STRIKES DOWN MIAMI’S CITY COMMISSION REDISTRICTING MAP, ORDERS CITY TO DRAW NEW MAPS
PLAINTIFFS' MAP PROPOSALS FOR MIAMI CITY COMMISSION
CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS AND MIAMI RESIDENTS FILE LAWSUIT CHALLENGING MIAMI CITY COMMISSION’S RACIALLY GERRYMANDERED REDISTRICTING MAP
Miami, FL — Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida and Dechert LLP filed a lawsuit on behalf of Grove Rights and Community Equity (GRACE), Engage Miami, the South Dade and Miami-Dade NAACP Branches, and four individual city residents challenging the Miami City Commission’s newly drawn redistricting map.
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END RACIAL GERRYMANDERING IN THE CITY OF MIAMI
Black Grove split in final Miami redistricting vote
The base redistricting map adopted by the Miami City Commission, without the inclusion of Wharf Miami to district 5.
U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore has ordered the city of Miami to draw a new voting map with different district boundaries, shifting political lines months before elections for three city commission seats. Moore’s order, issued Tuesday morning, followed a lawsuit brought by community groups accusing the city of racial gerrymandering when commissioners sought to preserve the ethnic makeup of the five-person board. Community groups sued in December, claiming the maps adopted last year broke up Coconut Grove, Flagami, Overtown and other neighborhoods for the sake of hitting racial or ethnic quotas in the districts. “The Court finds that Plaintiffs suffer serious harm when the legislature sorts its citizens based on race,” Moore wrote, “and, subsequently, when those individuals vote in racially gerrymandered districts.”
Miami ordered to draw new voting map months before elections for 3 commission seats
Federal judge weighs whether Miami needs to redraw voting maps before November election
Jacksonville redistricting case comes to a close. Federal judge approves settlement
The redistricting case against the city has been settled over a year after a group of civil rights groups successfully sued the city for racially gerrymandering its district map.
Big Miami’s Little Bahamas faces development pressure. One city official wants to fight it
Miami Commissioner Ken Russell says it is important to fight gentrification in Little Bahamas, the historically Black section of Coconut Grove settled by the city’s pioneers, to keep longtime residents from being displaced and bring back those who have left.
Futuristic Luxury townhomes rise along Day Avenue in Miami's historically Black West Coconut Grove on Thursday June 16, 2022. The mostly low income West Grove community is disappearing amid rapid residential redevelopment. Al Diaz
Community Wins: Wawa Withdraws From Gas Station Lease In Front Of Little Carver
The lengthy saga over the construction of a Wawa gas station across the street from George Washington Carver Elementary School seems to be over, as Wawa reached a settlement agreement on a legal challenge to terminate its agreement with Bahamian Village, LLC. In an order entered by Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court Judge Michael Hanzman, the Court approved the Stipulation to resolve the claims by Wawa. The agreement determines that the contract between Bahamian Village, LLC and Wawa ended on March 30, 2022.
Coconut Grove Residents Battle "Blatantly Racist" Redistricting Proposal
Coconut Grove is Miami's oldest neighborhood, and it's one with deep Black roots: Bahamian settlers who lived in what is now known as the West Grove literally built much of the city we know today. It's a neighborhood with a strong spirit, one that residents are fighting to defend 126 years after the Grove was incorporated as a new redistricting proposal threatens to split the community in three.
Activists celebrate West Grove CRA Approval
Erik Bojnansky Miami Times Senior Writer | Mar 30, 2021
A Bahamian-style inn may go up around a Black Miami pioneer’s west Coconut Grove home
“After prolonged negotiations, the plan won support from the neighborhood’s principal residents’ group, the Village West Homeowners and Tenants Association, and the recently instituted Grove Rights and Community Equity group, or GRACE, which groups together churches, residents and activists. Some prominent West Grove figures, including former city commissioner Thelma Gibson, have also vocally favored the inn project.”
Photo Gallery: West Coconut Grove past and present
A view of a thriving Grand Avenue just east of Douglas Road in the historically Black section of Miami’s Coconut Grove in an undated photo. BOB EAST Miami Herald
Coconut Grove: Zoned divided
Current building codes causing segregation could violate Fair Housing Act
Old Smokey
Read bios and background on this film covering the history of Old Smokey, the former incinerator, which operated from 1925 to 1970, and its environmental health impact on the West Grove community.
