What Truth Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America.Michael Eric Dyson.St. Martin’s Press, 294 pp. $24.99. Reviewed by Todd Steven Burroughs This review admittedly asks an unfair question: If Michael Eric Dyson had written the 1961 film version of “A Raisin in the Sun” instead of the play’s creator,…
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Kirsten West Savali of The Root, Dr. Greg Carr of Howard University and Indy Journalist Ben Norton discuss many of the missing pieces in the West v. Dyson exchange on WEAA 88.9 FM’s No Hooks for the Hip-Hop Chronicles. And if you missed it go back and check out the iMWiL! crew deal with this…
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In this hour we spoke again with Dominque Stevenson about the uprisings in Baltimore surrounding the killing of Freddie Gray and then spoke with Neely Fuller about his seminal work in the study of white supremacy and then turned to the controversy between Michael Eric Dyson and Cornel West. To do this we leaned on…
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