The Daily OrangeActivist to speak on race
By Laura Foti
Posted: 9/10/09, 2:54 AM EST Section: News
Michael Eric Dyson, a Georgetown University professor of American politics and race-relations expert, will come to Syracuse Thursday to address discrimination and other issues concerning the African American community. The event will occur in Goldstein Auditorium in the Schine Student Center from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Dyson will be the guest speaker at the Fall Convocation of the Student African American Society, the oldest non-Greek group on campus.
The largest event the organization hosts is the Fall Convocation, and it represents the main goal of the society to bring together and educate different bodies within the SU community, according to a press release about the program.
Each year the society invites a prominent black leader to speak at the convocation. The group focuses on promoting understanding and unity through events that can be shared by people of all races and backgrounds.
Dyson shares the society's goal of establishing unity, the press release said. He told America's Intelligence Wire that his mission is to "connect civil rights to identity to hip-hop culture and...to forge a connection between older and younger Americans, especially black Americans."
Dyson has written 16 books on subjects relating to race and his most recent work, "April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America" gives a look into the life and legacy of King.
Listed among one hundred of the most influential black men in America by Ebony Magazine, Dyson has commentated on cable news channels such as CNN and other cable programs such as HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."
Dyson also lectures on a variety of topics including hip hop music and culture, and was featured in Spike Lee's documentary on Hurricane Katrina, "When the Levees Broke."
lefoti@syr.edu
Dyson will be the guest speaker at the Fall Convocation of the Student African American Society, the oldest non-Greek group on campus.
The largest event the organization hosts is the Fall Convocation, and it represents the main goal of the society to bring together and educate different bodies within the SU community, according to a press release about the program.
Each year the society invites a prominent black leader to speak at the convocation. The group focuses on promoting understanding and unity through events that can be shared by people of all races and backgrounds.
Dyson shares the society's goal of establishing unity, the press release said. He told America's Intelligence Wire that his mission is to "connect civil rights to identity to hip-hop culture and...to forge a connection between older and younger Americans, especially black Americans."
Dyson has written 16 books on subjects relating to race and his most recent work, "April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America" gives a look into the life and legacy of King.
Listed among one hundred of the most influential black men in America by Ebony Magazine, Dyson has commentated on cable news channels such as CNN and other cable programs such as HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."
Dyson also lectures on a variety of topics including hip hop music and culture, and was featured in Spike Lee's documentary on Hurricane Katrina, "When the Levees Broke."
lefoti@syr.edu
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