Michael Eric Dyson

Thats What's Wrong with Black People

Elon James White | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media


Elon James White

These members of the Black intelligentsia see it as their job to step up and police President Obama on his dealings on Blackness.

Civil Rights: Is Gay the New Black?

Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics


Blaise Zerega

Leave it to Michael Eric Dyson to connect the dots between Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Ghandi, James Baldwin and Martin Luther King.

Taking a STAND: Aretha vs. Beyonce

Tavis Smiley | Posted 06.23.2009 | Entertainment


Tavis Smiley

Check out this clip from my new film, Stand, in which my boys Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson debate who is a better singer, Aretha or Beyoncé.

Taking a "Stand" on the Black Male Experience

Tavis Smiley | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media


Tavis Smiley

My new film STAND reflects on Black men who "stood" for something in the past and what it means as Black men continue to "stand" for something now.

Tavis Smiley's Big Day

Karen Ocamb | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media


Karen Ocamb

Gay and bisexual black men in California have household incomes that are 44 percent lower than their heterosexual counterparts.

The Obama Imprint

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics


Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

What Obama has done is so extraordinary that it calls into question the entire project of black advocates and intellectuals preoccupied by the question of racism.

Finally! MSNBC's Three-Hour Conversation About Race in America

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 04.20.2008 | Media


It was a different sort of doc block last night on MSNBC: First, there was the documentary "Meeting David Wilson," about a young black man, David A. W...