Dixie

By John Dorschner Miamiwebnews.com TEN days after the formal ceremony celebrating the road — and more than four months after the Harriet Tubman Highway became a legal entity on state roads in Miami-Dade — the name of the great anti-slavery activist remains shrouded in black plastic on West Dixie. Why…

By John Dorschner MiamiWebNews.com More than FIVE days after Harriet Tubman Highway was formally dedicated, black plastic still covers the sign on West Dixie at NE 119th Street. The dedication was Saturday at 11 a.m. by the Vizcaya Metrorail Station on South Dixie in toney Coconut Grove. About a dozen…

By John Dorschner Miami Web News While most Dixie highways in Miami-Dade are still in the midst of a struggle to be rebranded, a stretch of 3.5 miles in North Dade has officially been renamed Harriet Tubman Highway for more than a year — and almost no one knows it. …

lyrics to a song I wrote a long, long time ago — with a brief comment at the end [no appropriate image available on “unsplash” — though I admit I did not scroll through all 22,000+ “results” each for “rebel flag,” “confederate flag,” or “confederate battle flag” (though all looked…

The Lt. Governor of Dixie is not impressed. — It started with Nancy Pelosi. Then it was Hillary Clinton. Now, apparently, it’s me. I am not the first woman in politics to have sexist hate-campaigns rammed against me. I certainly will not be the last. Today, while I committed to a day of community service in Selma, Alabama on…