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    Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
    Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
    Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America
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    Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

    Written by Michael Eric Dyson

    Narrated by Michael Eric Dyson

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    "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 Magazine

    This 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 by the fact that it occurred during a pandemic whose victims were disproportionately of color) it was in truth the fuse that lit an ever-filling powder keg.

    Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. In five beautifully argued chapters—each addressed to a black martyr from Breonna Taylor to Rev. Clementa Pinckney—Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness from the slave ship to the street corner where Floyd lost his life—and where America gained its will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism. Ending with a poignant plea for hope, Dyson’s exciting new book points the way to social redemption. Long Time Coming is a necessary guide to help America finally reckon with race.

    A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

     “Antiracist demonstrations have been like love notes to the martyrs of racist terror and anti-Blackness. Michael Eric Dyson writes out these love notes in this powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening book. Long Time Coming is right on time.” —Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist

    “Crushingly powerful, Long Time Coming is an unfiltered Marlboro of black pain.” —Isabel Wilkerson, author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

    "Michael Eric Dyson is one of the nation’s most thoughtful and critical thinkers in social inequality and the demands of justice. Long Time Coming, his latest formidable, compelling book, has much to offer on our nation’s crucial need for racial reckoning and the way forward." —Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy

    Editor's Note

    A more equitable future…

    Ibram X. Kendi calls Michael Eric Dyson’s passionate guide to reckoning with racism “powerfully illuminating, heart-wrenching, and enlightening.” Dyson (“Tears We Cannot Stop,” “What Truth Sounds Like”) maps the history of anti-Blackness in the United States through letters penned to victims of racial injustice — from Emmett Till to Eric Garner and Breonna Taylor — while charting the way forward to a more just and equitable future.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateDec 1, 2020
    ISBN9781250808424
    Author

    Michael Eric Dyson

    MICHAEL ERIC DYSON—Distinguished University Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, College of Arts & Science, and of Ethics and Society, Divinity School, and NEH Centennial Chair at Vanderbilt University—is one of America’s premier public intellectuals and the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers including Tears We Cannot Stop, What Truth Sounds Like, JAY-Z, and Long Time Coming. A winner of the 2018 nonfiction Southern Book Prize, Dr. Dyson is also a recipient of two NAACP Image awards and the 2020 Langston Hughes Festival Medallion. Former president Barack Obama has noted: “Everybody who speaks after Michael Eric Dyson pales in comparison.”

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    • 4/5
      In what is essentially an extended sermon, Michael Eric Dyson gives it to us straight setting out the challenges all Americans face in addressing the rot of racism so deeply embedded in all facets of their society. I am not an African American but, as a Black Brit, I share many of the same frustrations as my kin across the Atlantic. May we all one day find peace and learn to live together. Black Lives Matter and we will continue to declare it until it feels true.

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    • 5/5
      Amen, amen, and amen! A thought inducing book that made me look back with a tear.
    • 1/5
      Tom Sowell explains that those that who perpetuate the myth of systemic racism in America do so only to enrich themselves. Jessie Jackson et al are all millionaires many times over.