Michael Eric Dyson

The recent media attention focused on Professor Michael Eric Dyson’s course on rapper Jay-Z, which he teaches at Georgetown University, has been both gift and curse. On the one hand, the media spotlight from The Today Show to the Washington Post provides those of us scholars who teach hip-hop a continuing platform for public engagement. […]

During a recognition ceremony for Rev. Jesse Jackson at Georgetown University, Professor Michael Eric Dyson honored Jackson for his contributions to America, saying that the activist set the stage for President Barack Obama. See Also: Stars Without Makeup See Also: Black Travel: Visit Chicago, Illinois Dyson, Rev. Al Sharpton, academics, and students attended the event, […]

In the brand new third season of This Week in Blackness, Elon James White returns with a flurry of new episodes tackling everything from the Michael “Brotha’-Still-Here” Steele and the “Negro” controversy to the increasingly inane metaphors of America’s Hip-Hop Professor, Michael Eric Dyson.