Renita Ross Samuels-Dixon

  • West Grove Outstanding Graduates Inspire the Community

    West Grove Outstanding Graduates Inspire the Community

    Jovan Kala Hannah Jovan Kala Hannah is graduating on June 7, 2011 from New World School of the Arts (High School), where he’s concentrating in Musical Theatre performance. He has been professionally and classically trained at New World, and was recently seen in “Curtains”, “The Exonerated”, and “GOD”.

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  • Rebranding the historic side of West Grove

    Rebranding the historic side of West Grove

    A walk down Grand Avenue, west of Cocowalk, is a stroll that leads to quiet sidewalks and empty windows of abandoned buildings, collecting dust. For every door open two are closed, indefinitely. Grand Avenue gets daily traffic moving through West Grove. Cars and buses pass through, but don’t stop.

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  • Service held for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated to the restoration of The Mariah Brown House in the Grove

    Service held for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated to the restoration of The Mariah Brown House in the Grove

    Members of the Coconut Grove community gathered at Greater St. Paul AME Church Sunday, Jan. 16, to celebrate the 18th annual celebration in memory of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The service was dedicated to the restoration of The Mariah Brown House in the Grove. Overall, the community was able to raise during the…

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  • Grove PeeWee team to compete for national win on Friday

    Grove PeeWee team to compete for national win on Friday

    Practice, endurance, and determination have defined the Coconut Grove Knight Riders 120-Pound Football Team: That grit has helped them win — all the way to the nation’s top competition for 10 and 11-year-olds. Now the elementary school students may become national Pee Wee champions.

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  • Toya Johnson (center) who runs Barberdoll’s Community Barbershop, is one of the Grand Avenue business leaders selling the $1 chocolate bars for the renovation of the Mariah Brown House. Toya Johnson is with Ms. JoAnne Sams and Nathan Lightburn.

    West Grove shops selling chocolate to help renovate Mariah Brown House

    A dollar’s worth of chocolate will help preserve West Grove’s history: A candy drive was started to help renovate the Mariah Brown House on Charles Avenue. The Friends and Family of Mariah Brown’s House and Museum want to preserve the house to showcase the rich Bahamian and African American history of Coconut Grove. Friends’ member…

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  • “A Night of Song” raises more than $2K for the Mariah Brown House

    The Friends and Family of Mariah Brown’s House and Museum, in partnership with the Coconut Grove Ministerial Alliance, raised more than $2,000 during “A Night of Song” – the first fundraiser geared toward earning donations to make the historic house into a museum. The event was organized by Renita Ross Samuels-Dixon, director and founder of…

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  • Proposed complex would offer affordable housing, UM programs

    The Coconut Grove Village West Homeowners & Tenants Association will discuss construction of a new $8 million affordable housing complex on Grand Avenue at its Monday, Sept. 27 meeting. Jihad S. Rashid, president and CEO of the Coconut Grove Collaborative, will seek the association’s support for the Gibson Community and Educational Center, a project that…

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    Mariah Brown House still waiting for renovation

    The preservation of the Mariah Brown House, a museum that would honor the first Bahamian property owners in Coconut Grove, should become a Coconut Grove Village Council priority, says one of its members, Renita Samuels-Dixon. “This is an important part of our community’s history,” Samuels-Dixon told council members at their Sept. 24 meeting. But work…

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  • Grand Avenue News website turns a year old

    Grand Avenue News website turns a year old

    Wish the Grand Avenue News website a happy first birthday! Since it started in September 2009, GrandAveNews.com already has attracted some 36,000 page views – and readers from 89 countries. The School of Communication at the University of Miami started the website to help its neighbor, Coconut Grove, better reach out and inform residents. The…

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  • An Evening of Beauty in Fashion and Songs

    An Evening of Beauty in Fashion and Songs

    Labor Day. Baseball season turning into football season. First day of school. All of these events are reasons to wave goodbye to summer and welcome autumn with its cooler temperatures. On , August 22, 2010, Back-to-School Eve, at 4:00 pm, the Usher Ministry of Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church of Miami, Inc., (the oldest African-American church…

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