Prep "Interview 2"- Miami Gardens more than just the Home of the Miami Dolphins

Today we were asked to team up with another student in our class, research the city they grew up in and interview them on their homwtown.

My interviewee gre up in Miami Gradens, FL, home to the Miami Dolphins and Florida Marlins (until 2012, new stadium for Marlins). Sun life stadium where the dolphins and marlins play there home games brings in lots of tourism, as well as the Calder Race track and Casino next to the stadium. The city of Miami Gardens was just incorporated as a city a few years ago. The city also has two college institutions, St. Thomas University and Florida Memorial University. The city is also home to a megachurch, the Antioch Mission Baptist Church with over seven thousand  members. Miami Gardens is also the largest city in Florida with a majority of Black residents. The city has many programs to help their residents, one of those is the Miss Miami Gardens Scholarship Pagent. Moreover, grants are given to resident to improve repairs on their homes to keep city up to code and progressing. My interviewee told me she loves her city and plans to stay in the future, "I do not plan to leave", she told me. The city was a merging of a few city boundaries and made residents of other citys such as Carol City, Norland, Bunche park, and Scott Lake, to form miami Gardens. In the 1970s middle class African American families began to move to the area of miami gardens from overtown and liberty, the stepping stones of what the city is today. The city has some negative reputations do to crime, some link this to the section 8 low income housing. When I asked my interviewee about this she told me that she "believes that more of the residents who receive these beneifts appreciate it,  however few individuals abuse these privileges."