Dinizulu Gene Tinnie, Historian

Dinizulu Gene Tinnie (February 25, Bronx, NY), Suffolk County Community College and State University of New York-Stony Brook for a B.A. in French (1965). Fulbright for French at the Université de Caen, France. M.A. in French literature (1966) and linguistics from Queens College (1970). Linguist for the Black Dialect Project in Los Angeles while pursuing an M.A. at UCLA. He was in the Miami Black Arts, until 1983 when he became a member of the Kuumba Artists Collective of South Florida. Professor of English, humanities, and art appreciation at Miami-Dade Community College (1975–95). At Florida Memorial College, he was the Art Department chair (1982). He designed exhibits for Old Dillard Museum and After the Henrietta Marie with A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie by the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society (1995). His public art commissions include Remembrance of the Way, Trilogy for Dr. King, The World is a Garden in which All Are One, A Gathering of Spirits, the Richmond Heights Pioneers Monument, and the Key West African Cemetery memorial monument. He founded the Dos Amigos/Fair Rosamond Slave Ship Replica Project. His research is in the Journal of African American History, Florida History, FlaVour magazine, and Islas Bilingual Quarterly. He is chair of the City of Miami Virginia Key Beach Park Trust and on other boards related to historic preservation. He and his wife, Dr. Wallis Hamm Tinnie have two daughters.

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