{"id":314511,"date":"2026-06-21T00:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314511\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:47:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:47:27","slug":"miamis-overtown-host-block-party-and-heritage-market-to-honor-juneteenth-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314511\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami\u2019s Overtown host Block Party and Heritage Market to honor Juneteenth &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; A cultural celebration kicked off in Miami\u2019s Overtown, honoring Juneteenth weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Overtown Business Association hosted the Block Party and Heritage Market on Saturday at the Dunn-Josephine Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The block party featured music, a tribute to R&amp;B icon Betty Wright, and support for African-American-owned businesses while also honoring Miami\u2019s historic black epicenter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just really, really excited to celebrate because it\u2019s what our ancestors have already done, but also to keep the innovation going, so I\u2019m just loving to be a part of something so monumental, especially being in the heart of Overtown,\u201d said Mone\u2019t Howard, owner of Artist Mone\u2019t Beauty Collection.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said the party also served to collect donations that will fund local economic development and preservation efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; A cultural celebration kicked off in Miami\u2019s Overtown, honoring Juneteenth weekend. The Overtown Business Association&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-314511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}