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Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is a Georgetown University sociology professor,
a New York Times contributing opinion writer, and a contributing
editor of The New Republic, and of ESPN’s The Undefeated website.
Dr. Dyson has authored nearly twenty books on subjects such as the
legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. in April 4, 1968, Malcolm X, Nas’s
debut album Illmatic, Tupac, Marvin Gaye, and Hurricane Katrina’s
devastating and long lasting effects. He has won two NAACP Image
Awards for Outstanding Literary Work in Non-Fiction and the American
Book Award in 2007 for Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and
the Color of Disaster. Essence has named Michael Eric Dyson one of the
40 most inspiring African Americans and Ebony has listed him among the
100 most influential black Americans. He often speaks at universities
and political conventions, but he is also known for his speaking
engagements at union halls, prisons, classrooms, and churches.
Throughout his career, Dr. Dyson has had a profound effect on American
culture and thinking. His latest book, What Truth Sounds Like,
continues the conversation started in his 2017 bestseller Tears We
Cannot Stop, and was the winner of the 2018 Southern Books Prize for
nonfiction.
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