Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Convocation
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Michael Eric Dyson is a prolific author, scholar, public intellectual, ordained minister, media commentator and talk radio show host. In his 13 books in 13 years, Dyson has taken on some of the toughest and most controversial issues of our day, including Martin Luther King Jr.'s radical legacy, the virtues and crises of hip-hop culture, racial conflict and black identity, and, most recently, the political and racial fall-out from Hurricane Katrina. Dyson is currently the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. |