On May 17, 1980, a Tampa all-white jury acquitted four white Metro Dade police officers in the beating death of a Black insurance agent in Miami, setting off the riot.

The riots of 1980, which broke out after the acquittal of four police officers charged with murdering 33-year-old Arthur McDuffie, marked the beginning of the end of Jumbo’s, Flam said.

On this day, May 17, in 1980, rioting erupted in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami after an all-white jury acquitted four former police officers of fatally beating black businessman Arthur ...

Miami New Drama's Dangerous Days play tells the story of Arthur McDuffie and the 1980 race riots in Miami. It's based off the book by Edna Buchanan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Miami Herald ...

Carter’s struggles with Miami’s boiling summer of 1980 — a one-two punch of the Mariel boatlift from Cuba and the May race riots — might not have been on the same level as the humiliating ...