A best-selling author, scholar and cultural commentator, Michael Eric Dyson is University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He is a two-time NAACP Image Award winner and recipient of the American Book Award. Ebony magazine has named him one of the 150 most powerful African Americans.
Dyson is the author of 16 books, including two New York Times best sellers: Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? and April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death and How It Changed America. In his most recent book, Can You Hear Me Now? The Inspiration, Wisdom and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson, he offers his thoughts on a range of topics, from love and justice to race and the presidency.
Dyson has taught at some of the nation’s most prestigious universities, including Brown, Chapel Hill, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania, and lectured on stages around the world. In addition to analyzing today’s biggest stories from race relations to pop culture on his own news and talk program on NPR, The Michael Eric Dyson Show, he has appeared as a featured commentator on numerous television programs including the Today Show, Nightline, the O’Reilly Factor and Real Time with Bill Maher.
