About the Author

Michael Eric Dyson is an ordained Ba ptist minister and Professor of African American S tudies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is th e author of Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for T upac Shakur, I May Not Get There With You: The Tru e Martin Luther King, Jr., Making Malcolm: The Myt h and Meaning of Malcolm X, Between God and Gangst a Rap, and Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line. He lives with his family in Philadelphia, Pennsylv ania.