‘MKL for the 21st Century’ with Michael Eric Dyson- The Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture
Tuesday, Feb 6 7:00
Kresge Visual Arts Center
Michael Eric Dyson is one of America’s most visible and quotable public intellectuals. He is a renowned scholar and cultural critic on issues of race, religion, popular culture, and contemporary issues in America. He has authored eighteen books, including, April 4, 1968: Martin Luther king Jr. Death and How It Changed America, Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster, and his most recent, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America.
Dyson is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University, a regular commentator on CNN and contributing writer to the New York Times, Washington Post and ESPN’s Undefeated, to name a few.