Death in Black and White

In a July 7, 2016 New York Times op-ed, Michael Eric Dyson speaks to the killings of Alton B. Sterling, Philando Castile, and five police officers in Dallas. “Whiteness is blindness. It is the wish not to see what it will not know.”

Violence against Black Churches

Michael Eric Dyson in the New York Times (“Love and Terror in the Black Church,” Sunday, June 21, 2015) and NPR’s Rachel Martin talking to Rev. Charles Watkins in Charleston (“Churches Try To Stay Safe — And Keep Their Open-Door...

Racial Terror, Fast and Slow

“Social protest forces us to see realities we would rather avoid, and blacks live in mortal fear for our lives in a manner that most whites don’t see or understand.”  In a New York Times op ed, Michael Eric Dyson comments on media representation of the...