MICHAEL ERIC DYSON-Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, College of Arts & Science, and of Ethics and Society, Divinity School, and NEH Centennial Chair at Vanderbilt University-is one of America's premier public intellectuals and the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers including Tears We Cannot Stop, What Truth Sounds Like, JAY-Z, and Long Time Coming. A winner of the 2018 nonfiction Southern Book Prize, Dr. Dyson is also a recipient of two NAACP Image awards and the 2020 Langston Hughes Festival Medallion. Former president Barack Obama has noted: "Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison."
This program is read by the author From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop comes Michael Eric Dyson's Entertaining Race. For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in the nation as a publi...[SEE MORE]