Coconut Grove Stories: Race, Risk, Resilience

Aug 08 2022 53 mins
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The FIU Extreme Events Institute, the FIU Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab, and the neighborhood of Coconut Grove (Little Bahamas) present "Coconut Grove Stories: Race, Risk, Resilience". This podcast is a series of in-depth interviews with Coconut Grove elders where we investigate the way Coconut Grove has changed, how climate catastrophes have impacted the Grove, traditions lost to time, and how we can preserve Coconut Grove culture with impending threats from gentrification. Listen to these pillars of the community and learn about Coconut Grove history.

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