Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an academic, author, and radio host. He is a professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Described by Michael A. Fletcher as a Princeton Ph.D. and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two, Dyson has authored or edited 18 books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Marvin Gaye, Nass debut album Illmatic, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur, and Hurricane Katrina.
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