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Georgetown Prof Michael Dyson speaking at Fresno State on Sun 3/14 at 7pm
Georgetown University's Professor Michael Eric Dyson at CSUF in the Satellite
Student Union. The event is free and open to the public! Cultural critic Dyson
assesses issues’ impact on blacks.

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, a Georgetown University sociologist, author and cultural critic of contemporary issues’ impact on the African-American community, will speak at California State University, Fresno, as a guest of its Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholars Committee.

Dyson has written 16 books, including the acclaimed “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death and How It Changed America,” “Holler if You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right?” and “I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr.”

His topics have ranged from biographies of performers Tupac Shakur and Marvin Gaye to examinations of issues of gender, class and generation within the African-American community in the post Civil Rights Era.







Dr. Michael Eric Dyson- an American Book Award recipient and two-time NAACP Image Award winner- is one of the nation’s most influential and renowned public intellectuals. He has been named one of the 150 most powerful African Americans by Ebony Magazine.
“an excellent sociological primer on institutionalized racism in America.” -Washington Post

This event is FREE and open to the public.
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