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DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1 FM & Marcus Books present\n\nMICHAEL ERIC DYSON\nWhat Truth 
 Sounds Like: RFK, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation About Race 
 in America\nHosted by Kevin Cartwright\n            \nEntry $20, entry & 
 book $35, 2 entries & book $45,  Tickets: 800-838-3006, or independent 
 bookstores, Benefit KPFA, Info: kpfa.org/events   \n\nMichael Eric Dyson is 
 one of America's premier public intellectuals. The author of last year's 
 outstanding bestseller, "Tears We Cannot Stop," Dyson is University 
 Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, a frequent contributor to 
 the New York Times, and an editor of The New Republic. Ebony magazine named 
 him one of America's 100 most influential African-Americans. In addition, 
 Dyson is a uniquely outstanding public speaker, employing exceptionally 
 deep knowledge with a talent for immediacy, terrific wit, and an 
 extraordinarily rich voice.   \n\nHis new book, What Truth Sounds Like 
 deftly explores the tense intersection of the conflict between politics and 
 prophecy- of whether we embrace political resolution or moral redemption to 
 fix our fractured landscape. Dr. Dyson examines key players today, from 
 Jay-Z to Jordan Peele and LeBron James, from Ta-Nehisi Coates to Kamala 
 Harris. He ends with a paean to Wakanda, the all too mythical nation 
 celebrated in the film "Black Panther".  "If James Baldwin and his glorious 
 crew could gather again, they could hardly have a better place to reconvene 
 and let the beautiful momentum of blackness wash over them as they sought 
 to make America truly great. For the first time."\n\nWhat Truth Sounds Like 
 reveals how every big argument about race that persists to this day got a 
 hearing in a crucial meeting convened in 1963 when Robert F. Kennedy 
 invited James Baldwin and a few of his friends to discuss Black America's 
 rage: disdain for black dissent, the belief that black folk wallow in the 
 politics of ingratitude and victimhood, and that they lack hustle and 
 ingenuity.\n\n$20-$45.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/21/18809313.php
SUMMARY:Michael Eric Dyson: Our Unfinished Conversation About Race in America
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Oakland\n2501 Harrison St\nOakland, CA 94612
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/21/18809313.php
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