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About the Author

Dr. Michael Eric Dysonis an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of over twenty books, a widely celebrated professor, a prominent public intellectual, an ordained Baptist minister, and a noted political analyst. He is a two-time NAACP Image Award winner, and the winner of the American Book Award for Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. His book The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America was a Kirkus Prize finalist. He is the co-author of Unequal with Marc Favreau. He is also a highly sought after public speaker who is known to excite both secular and sacred audiences. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Follow him on Twitter and on his official Facebook page.
Books
On the Blog
By the Author
Represent
Unequal
Barack and Joe
Can You Hear Me Now?
Know What I Mean?
Born to Use Mics
April 4, 1968
Come Hell or High Water
Debating Race
Is Bill Cosby Right?
Mercy, Mercy Me
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader
Why I Love Black Women
Open Mike