Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Eric Dyson

Described as a “hip-hop intellectual,” Michael Eric Dyson is an ordained Baptist minister, social analyst, and a Professor at Georgetown University. His book, Is Bill Cosby Right?, was a national bestseller and winner of a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Dyson is the author of numerous books, including Know What I Mean? and April 4, 1968. Can You Hear Me Now? is a collection of spirited essays on topics as diverse as literature, love, music, justice, politics, religion, and the new president. (booksense)… (mais)

Michael Eric Dyson , Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson.

We welcome Hue-Man favorite orator...and look forward to be inspired and entertained one again. Over the last 20 years, Michael Eric Dyson has become one of America's most visible--and quotable--public intellectuals. Whether in his sixteen books, or in countless newspapers, television and radio appearances, or on stages, podiums, and pulpits across the world. (booksense)… (mais)

Michael Eric Dyson lê-se de April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America.

Harvard Book Store and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research are honored to present Georgetown University sociology professor MICHAEL ERIC DYSON as he examines the death of one of the twentieth-century's great leaders and its impact on the United States.

On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr., was fatally shot. Only hours earlier King ended his final speech with the words, “I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.”

Dyson uses the fortieth anniversary of King’s assassination as the occasion for a provocative and fresh examination of how King fought, and faced, his own death, and how we should use his death and legacy. Dyson also reevaluates the fate of Black America over the four decades that followed King’s death. He investigates the ways in which African Americans have in fact made it to the Promised Land of which King spoke, while shining a bright light on the ways in which the nation has faltered in the quest for racial justice. He also probes the virtues and flaws of charismatic black leadership that has followed in King’s wake, from Jesse Jackson to Barack Obama. (ablachly)… (mais)