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Published September 03Key West reimagines its rainbow crosswalks — virtually
It’s been nearly a year since state workers blacked out Key West’s rainbow crosswalks, as if redacting a document to conceal an identity. But it’ll take more than blacktop to suppress the island’s identity. The Key West Business Guild and its nonprofit partner, Gay Key West, will…
Keys Weekly
Published August 28Key West remembers the slave trade and its end
Few sites are more fitting for a remembrance of the atrocities of the African slave trade than Key West’s African Cemetery at Higgs Beach. And that’s precisely how the site was used on Aug. 23, the International Day of Remembrance for the Slave Trade and Its Abolition. This…