Topic: Michael Eric Dyson

Every January,America honors the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. Perhaps because it has now been decades since this occasion has been declared...
Reading, writing, rap? Jay-Z is leaving his mark on the classroom. The rap icon has inspired a college course at Georgetown. Race, gender, culture...
Rapper, business man and music mogul Jay-Z is a jack of all trades and now he has a college course devoted to him and his impact on hip-hop. ....
At Georgetown University this Fall, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is conducting a course revolving around Jay-Z. While at Hov's charitable event two weeks...

Tea Party Put Gun to Obama's Head

By: Jenée Desmond-Harris | Posted: August 2, 2011 Print Email +/- Text SizePermalink SHAREFacebook Digg Twitter MySpace Stumble Upon Google Tweet...
Prodigy continued his book tour two days ago at Howard University and Barnes & Noble in Washington D.C. At the latter location, he was also joined...
In the black world of higher academia it seems that everyone wants to be a public intellectual. A public intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, or speculate on a variety of topics. Michael Eric Dyson ...

Michael Eric Dyson

In 2006 Dyson hosted his own talk radio show on the Radio One network. His radio show ended in February 2007 and Dyson returned to academia. 1996 : Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line 2000 :
Did the disaster in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina take place because of racism? In "Come Hell or High Water", Michael Eric Dyson explores this question, trying to sort out how the issues of race and class affected governmental response, and the ...

Things that Just Peeve Me

Over the years, I've been amassing a list of little things that just get me. Some of them are social, like lack of courtesy, and people's inability to make change or give directions. Some are mis-uses of the English language ...