Detroit Public Library Spring Author Series--Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

Following his 2017 bestseller "Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America," his latest book "What Truth Sounds Like: Robert F. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America" examines key players today – ranging from Jay-Z to Jordan Peele and LeBron James, from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo, from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Kamala Harris. And he ends with a paean to Wakanda – the all too mythical nation celebrated in “Black Panther”. “If Baldwin and his glorious crew could gather again, they could hardly have a better place to reconvene and let the beautiful momentum of blackness wash over them as they sought to make America truly great. For the first time.”

MICHAEL ERIC DYSON is one of America’s premier public intellectuals. He occupies the distinguished position of University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, and is a contributing editor of The New Republic and ESPN’s The Undefeated. Ebony magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans and one of the 150 most powerful blacks in the nation. 
Books will be available for sale and a book signing will take place following presentation. 

Parking is available in our staff parking lot on Putnam St.  Entrance to the library is through either the Woodward or Cass Ave. doors.  Accessible parking is available in the circle drive on Cass Ave. This event is free and open to the public.