Dr. Marvin Dunn taught in the Department of Psychology at Florida International University for 34 years, retiring as chairman of the department in 2006. He earned his PhD in psychology from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He co-authored The Miami Riot of 1980: Crossing the Bounds (1984), with Bruce Porter, and authored Black Miami in the Twentieth Century (1997), and The Beast In Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence (2012). He has directed three documentary films: Black Seminoles in the Bahamas: The Red Bays Story; Murder on the Suwannee River: The Willie James Howard Story; and Rosewood Uncovered.