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Love and Terror in the Black Church

By Michael Eric Dyson June 20, 2015 AT the sprawling Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas one day last spring, I was met by five men with earpieces who escorted me…

June 20, 2015
Social Justice, Uncategorized

Goodbye to Freddie Gray and Goodbye to Quietly Accepting Injustice

By Michael Eric Dyson April 29, 2015 WASHINGTON — IN the spacious sanctuary of Baltimore’s New Shiloh Baptist Church, at the funeral of Freddie Gray on Monday, the familiar weight…

April 29, 2015
Social Justice, Uncategorized

Racial Terror, Fast and Slow

By Michael Eric Dyson April 17, 2015 WASHINGTON — IN the past two years, this country has held events commemorating 50 years since the triumphs and key struggles of the…

April 17, 2015
Social Justice, Uncategorized

Where Do We Go After Ferguson?

By Michael Eric Dyson Nov. 29, 2014 WASHINGTON — WHEN Ferguson flared up this week after a grand jury failed to indict the white police officer Darren Wilson for killing…

November 29, 2014
Social Justice, Uncategorized

Death in Black and White

By Michael Eric Dyson July 7, 2016 This essay has been updated to reflect news developments. We, black America, are a nation of nearly 40 million souls inside a nation…

July 7, 2016
Social Justice, Uncategorized

Racial Violence on the Screen

By Michael Eric Dyson Aug. 5, 2017 In the thick of “Detroit,” a new film by Kathryn Bigelow about the uprising in that city — my native city — 50…

August 5, 2017
Social Justice, Uncategorized

Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy

By Michael Eric Dyson Aug. 12, 2017 The late, great Gore Vidal said that we live in “The United States of Amnesia.” Our fatal forgetfulness flares when white bigots come…

August 12, 2017
Social Justice, Uncategorized

Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson

By Michael Eric Dyson May 4, 2006 In an ancillary sense, the author uses the events of Katrina to tell the African American community that they cannot have it both…

May 4, 2006
Social Justice, Uncategorized

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By Michael Eric Dyson December 1, 2016 Beloved, the deed has been done. We have—since that ‘we’ must contain, by virtue of our system of government, if not the will,…

December 1, 2016
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Social Justice, politics, religion

Ta-Nehisi Coates on education, religion and Obama

By Michael Eric Dyson October 13, 2017 Michael Eric Dyson is an ordained minister and sociology professor at Georgetown University. His latest book is “Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to…

October 13, 2017
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