“MOONLIGHT” is making a permanent mark on its roots. According to the Miami New Times, a stretch of Miami-Dade County’s Liberty City will be named “Moonlight Way,” giving a nod to the inner city neighborhood that the film’s creators, director Barry Jenkins and playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, called home and served as the backdrop for their personal memoirs intertwined in the coming-of-age film.

    “Moonlight Way” will be on NW 22nd Avenue from NW 61st Street to NW 66th Street — only a short distance from Liberty Square where Jenkins grew up and where parts of “Moonlight” were filmed.

    Commissioner Audrey Edmonson said she hopes the street will have a lasting impact in bringing awareness to those who did not grow up in the city. “This movie really depicts the life of how a lot of us were raised and what we had to go through and endure as children in the inner city,” said Edmonson. (SD-Agencies)