When 7-year-old Brayden J. Floyd spotted the hateful white markings etched across the faces of Jackie Robinson and Minnie Miñoso at Dorsey Park, he didn't understand the racist and obscene slurs scrawled across the wall.

What he witnessed that day in early June was an act of vandalism and an attempt to deface a proud history in Miami’s historical Black and Afro-Latino community in Overtown.

On Wednesday afternoon, he and community members, city leaders, and artists gathered at the corner of NW First Avenue and 17th Street for the official unveiling of the murals — now fully restored to keep history alive.

A Downtown Development Authority staff member inspects the mural of Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball’s first Black player, after it was vandalized with a swastika and racial slur

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