Long Time Coming Reckoning with Race in America

Michael Eric Dyson

eAudio - 2020

"As a narrator, the reverence and tenderness Dyson communicates in his letters—addressed to victims of racist violence Elijah McClain, Emmett Till, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, Hadiya Pendleton, Sandra Bland, and the Rev. Clementa Pinckney—invoke the experience of listening in on a holy epistle. Don't miss this." — AudioFile MagazineThis program is read by Michael Eric Dyson.From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop, a passionate call to America to finally reckon with race and start the journey to redemption. The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night's ...events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation's history and the sort of social unrest we have not seen since the sixties. While Floyd's death was certainly the catalyst, (heightened... more