[FAC] Fresno City College Speakers Forum presents Michael Eric Dyson

[Cris Monahan-Bremer]

Race, Politics, and Class in 21st Century America

 

The Fresno City College Speakers Forum presents acclaimed author and
educator Michael Eric Dyson, Friday, April 25 at 12 p.m. in the FCC Gym.

 

Dyson's presentation, "Race, Politics, and Class in 21st Century
America," comes on the heels of the release of his latest book April 4,
1968:  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America.   In
the book, Dyson uses the 40th anniversary of King's assassination as the
occasion for a provocative and fresh examination of how King fought, and
faced, his own death, and how we should use his death and legacy.

 

Dr. Dyson is presently a University Professor at Georgetown University
where he teaches Religion, English and African American Studies. His
legendary rise - from welfare father to Princeton Ph.D., from church
pastor to college professor, from a factory worker who didn't start
college until he was 21 to a figure who has become what writer Naomi
Wolf terms "the ideal public intellectual of our time" is well noted.  

 

Dyson was named by Essence magazine as one of the 40 most inspiring
African-Americans and by Ebony magazine as one of the 100 most
influential black Americans. Dyson is the author of sixteen books
<http://www.michaelericdyson.com/books.php> , including Holler if You
Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right? and I May Not Get There With You: The True
Martin Luther King Jr.  He is well known as a prolific author, scholar,
public intellectual, ordained minister, media commentator and talk radio
show host.  

 

Dyson has also taken the media by storm through appearances on The Today
Show, Nightline, O'Reilly Factor, The Tavis Smiley Show and Real Time
with Bill Maher - and he has cemented his star appeal on such shows as
Rap City, Def Poetry Jam and The Colbert Report. Dyson is also the host
of the syndicated radio show, The Michael Eric Dyson Show, which
addresses social, cultural and political issues in a contemporary vein. 

 

 

 

Cris Monahan Bremer

College Director of Marketing and Communications

Fresno City College

1101 E. University Ave.

Fresno CA 93741

(559) 442-8258

FAX: (559) 485-3367

www.fresnocitycollege.edu

 

 

 

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