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Michael Eric Dyson

The Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies and Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of numerous books, including Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster (2007), Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (2017), and, most recently, Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America (2020).

St. Paul’s Letter to America

“After the Capitol offense, all thoughts of American exceptionalism should be dead,” says the apostle. “But you need not despair.”

January 18, 2021

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