Our Coalition & Key Partners

Working collaboratively, a group of dedicated community partners coordinates the Miami-Dade TEAR Initiative. They are community organizations, institutions, and individuals, and include universities, a museum, local historians,and concerned citizens. Key among them are:

Historic Virginia Key Beach Park,

An outdoor museum and waterfront city park that was Miami’s “colored beach” during the segregation era.

Barry University

A liberal arts university with a diverse population of over 7,000 students founded in 1940 by the Adrian Dominican Sisters.

South Florida People of Color

A racial healing organization dedicated to disrupting racism by providing creative programs for open dialogue and personal interaction across the racial, ethnic and cultural divides.

The Miami-based coalition collaborates with the nationally recognized Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) of Montgomery,Alabama. According to that organization’s website, “EJI believes that publicly confronting the truth about our history is the first step towards recovery and reconciliation. A history of racial injustice must be acknowledged, and mass atrocities and abuse must be recognized and remembered, before a society can recover from mass violence. Public commemoration plays a significant role in prompting community-wide reconciliation.”