Inside the Freedom Tower, visitors will see rows and rows of photographs of exiles, many of whom were processed there. Carl Juste cjuste@miamiherald.com This month, we celebrated a homecoming — not ...

MIAMI — There was nothing atypical about the young man. At the moment in the mid-1960s, he seemed as dazed as every other teenager I had seen walk into "El Refugio," the Spanish moniker for the Cuban ...

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Tell me: What’s this place all about? The iconic Freedom Tower, often called the “Ellis Island of the South,” has a storied history in Miami, having been built in 1925 as the headquarters of The Miami ...

MIAMI — Peering at artifacts from an era of mass immigration into South Florida, Miriam Castro recalls snapshots from her own journey as an exiled young girl. Castro was just 9 in August 1961 when she ...

A group of about 20 demonstrators gathered outside the historic Freedom Tower in Downtown Miami on Monday afternoon, voicing opposition to plans for a Trump Presidential Library on land previously ...

MIAMI — Miami's iconic Freedom Tower, rising above Biscayne Boulevard, has witnessed a century of dreams, hope and new beginnings. "It is a living exhibit to libertad, which is freedom," Miami Dade ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ push to establish the future Donald Trump Presidential Library in his state crossed a major milestone Tuesday, angering some Miami residents due in part to the proposed ...

A guillotine looming menacingly outside the Freedom Tower evokes terrifying references ranging from the industrial-scale beheadings of the French Revolution to the U ...