“I didn’t know that advocating within my community would bring such a negative focus to me personally,” Everett said. “While I would advocate for children and families in my community, I found that as a Black worker I would be referred to as aggressive, loud, out of con...
The tourism boom brought billions of dollars into the local economy, but it also set into motion a dramatic transformation of the city center: hotels and hostels, juice bars and bike rental shops, marijuana clubs and mojito dispensaries, all pushing out the services that would sustain a communit...