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Michael Eric Dyson is one of the nation’s most renowned professors, gifted writers, inspiring preachers, knowledgeable lecturers, and prominent media personalities. Dyson has taught at some of the nation’s most distinguished universities, including Brown, UNC Chapel Hill, Columbia, DePaul, the University of Pennsylvania, and Georgetown University. He is presently Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at the College of Arts & Science; Distinguished University Professor of Ethics and Society, The Divinity School; and NEH Centennial Chair at Vanderbilt University. Dyson is one of America’s premier public intellectuals and the author of over 25 books, including seven New York Times bestselling volumes on Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, 2Pac, Marvin Gaye, Bill Cosby, and Barack Obama. Dyson’s literary output won him the 2020 Langston Hughes Medal, an American Book Award, a Southern Book Award, and two NAACP Image Awards. Dyson’s most recent book, “Represent: The Unfinished Fight for the Vote,” with co-author Marc Favreau, has garnered rave reviews.