Michael Eric Dyson (born 1958) is an academic, author, preacher, and radio host.
He is Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University.
Described by Michael A.
Fletcher as "a Princeton Ph.D.
and a child of the streets who takes pains never to separate the two", Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Nas's debut album Illmatic, Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Hurricane Katrina.