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Dr. Marvin Dunn

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Historian with a focus on race and lynching. Taught at Florida International University for 35 years. Started a community garden in Miami’s inner city called the Teach the Truth Garden where we giveaway banned books.

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Judge Temporarily Blocks Transfer of Miami Property for Trump Library

Judge Temporarily Blocks Transfer of Miami Property for Trump Library www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Last week I went to the office of my congresswoman Maria E. Salazar to make an appointment and was told that she doesn’t see constituents and to send her an email.

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This postcard announced the birth of Miami in 1896. Blacks as alligator bait is part of Southern culture.

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Members of my family in New Orleans for a reunion pay respects to the 300 years old tree where enslaved Africans prayed, buried their dead and were sometimes hung.

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Marvin Dunn (@dr.marvindunn) on Threads FAMU has a Black History Learning Tree! It's just outside the administration building. USE IT!

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Fort Garland

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Above Silverton, Colorado this morning.

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Yvonne and Stanley Caleb - Stories of Resistance from Black Miami
YouTube video by HistoryMiami Museum Yvonne and Stanley Caleb - Stories of Resistance from Black Miami

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The newly appointed Overtown Black History Learning Tree is located at 901 NW Third Avenue in the Teach the Truth Garden. I will be telling stories from beneath this tree soon. Stay tuned.

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On my property in Rosewood

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Barry University students today on the Teach the Truth tour in Marianna,Florida touching the tree where Claude Neal was lynched in 1934. On to Alabama tomorrow.

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The Save Our Democracy Rally in Palmetto Bay yesterday.

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Call now!

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Trump supporter Congresswoman Maria Salazar represents me in Congress. I am writing her to ask what she is doing to stop the destruction of the federal government. If there is no response I will call for a public rally at her office in Cutler Bay. Stand by.

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Benjamin E. Mays Lecture Preview Episode with Dr. Marvin Dunn Podcast Episode · CREATE (Ed) · S2 Bonus · 31m

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Receiving the Bennie Award for service from Morehouse College this past weekend in Atlanta.

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With my wife Andrea at the Candle in the Dark Awards by Morehouse College this past weekend. I was given the Bennie Award for service.

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Receiving the Benie Award from Morehouse College in Atlanta last night. My name is Dunn but I am Not done!

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