About the Author
Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is the author of The Michael Eric Dyson Reader, Open Mike; Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur; Why I Love Black Women; I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.; Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line; Between God and Gangsta Rap; Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X; and Reflecting Black. He is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia.

Memed for herodom. This is the smartest guy I've seen on TV. Maybe thats James Burke, actually. Anyway, he's a leftie who can spit hot fire with the best of the right-wing fuckos. Needs his own show/radio program.