Liberty City

April Yvette Thompson knows Miami’s Liberty City. It’s where urban and island cultures rub up against each other, and it’s where she grew up with her Bahamian/Cuban father and African-American mother. Now she brings to life that neighborhood as it was during her childhood – the turbulent 1970s and ’80s, a time when hope and the possibility of change gave way to disillusionment and disintegration, and families struggled to stay together as their worlds were coming apart.