Michael Eric Dyson Audio & Video

America's leading young black intellectual reveals the hidden rules of race that dominate politics...

"If America is essentially an idea, then JAY is its best embodiment," says Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, a Georgetown sociology professor, New York Times contributing opinion writer, and contributing editor of The New Republic.

Possessed of "intellectual heft, critical thinking depth and finesse with words and messages" (Essence), Michael Eric Dyson is the author of 19 books, a frequent New York Times opinion writer, an MSNBC political analyst, and University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown.

Author and cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson talked about his life, his career, and his body of writing.

In the wake of yet another set of police killings of black men, Michael Eric Dyson wrote a tell-it-straight, no-holds-barred piece for the NYT on Sunday, July 7: "Death in Black and White" (it was updated within a day to acknowledge the killing of police officers in Dallas).

Has the political establishment failed America? Whether they voted for Trump or Sanders or none of the above, millions of Americans say the answer is yes – and that the system benefits the elites at the expense of everyone else.

What Truth Sounds Like is a timely exploration of America's tortured racial politics that continues the conversation from Michael Eric Dyson's New York Times best seller Tears We Cannot Stop.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Tears We Cannot Stop comes Michael Eric Dyson's Entertaining Race.

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On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., the prophet for racial and economic justice in America, was fatally shot. Only hours earlier, he had ended his final public speech by promising that “we as a people will get to the Promised Land.�