Author, Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
Michael Eric Dyson is a Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. His 2019 New York Times bestselling nonfiction JAY-Z: Made in America is the recipient of two starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and the Library Journal and speaks on JAY-Z’s career and his role in making this nation what it is today. He is an author, a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times, an MSNBC political analyst, a contributing editor at New Republic, the host of the Michael Eric Dyson Podcast Featuring Dr. Dan Ratner, an ordained Baptist minister for over 30 years, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1993.
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 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 named Michael Eric Dyson one of the 40 most inspiring African Americans and Ebony 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 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. Follow Michael Eric Dyson on Twitter and Facebook.