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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…