New Overtown Visitor Center opens

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2/25/2015, 2 p.m. Officials opened the new Historic Overtown Visitor Center on Monday. Pictured are William D. Talbert III, Sen. Dwight Bullard, Dorothy Fields, Commissioner Audrey Edmonson, Diane Rodriguez, Carole Ann Taylor, Graylyn Swilley and Timothy Barber. PHOTO COURTESY OF YVETTE HARRIS The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau’s Multicultural Tourism team (GMCVB)…
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The Grand Finale Lyric Live

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Erick Johnson | 11/5/2014, 2 p.m. They’re back for the biggest battle of the year. They have earned their title of champion by dethroning another with dazzling performances at the Lyric Live amateur competition at Overtown’s Historic Lyric Theater. One of them Maylin Cuadra, the talented two-time winner who belts…
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‘Hey that’s my seat! Get your own!’

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Lyric adds donors to its history Carla St.Louis | 4/3/2014, 9 a.m. The newly refurbished Lyric Theater and the Black Archives Welcome Center open its doors in a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 6 in the historic Overtown neighborhood of Miami. CARL JUSTE When spectators enter the historic halls of…
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The Lyric is ready to rejuvenate Overtown

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Reginald J. Clyne | 2/27/2014, 9 a.m. The Lyric Theater was opened in 1913 by a Black man from Georgia, Geder Walker.  In 1915, the Miami News described the Lyric Theater “as the most beautiful and costly playhouse owned by Colored people in all the Southland.”  The theater anchored the…
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Lyric Theater lights up Overtown

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 Official grand opening scheduled for June 2/13/2014, 9 a.m. The Lyric Theater’s much anticipated soft-opening in Overtown attracted prominent Black figures to its ribbon cutting ceremony held on February 6th. The event honored sponsors and patrons who contributed to the Lyric Theater’s renovation. Guests watched a viewing of the Black…
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