Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

The Technical College of the Lowcountry’s PILAU program will host a special lecture from best-selling author Dr. Michael Eric Dyson at 1 p.m., Wednesday, March 17 in the MacLean Hall Auditorium, Beaufort Campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Dyson is a Princeton graduate and holds a Ph.D. in Religion. As well as being an author, he is an ordained Baptist minister, a professor of sociology at Georgetown University, and he hosts his own radio show.

Dyson will present a lecture titled “The Survival Guide for Black Men in America.” A popular lecturer , Dyson bridges gaps between generations, connecting civil rights identity to hip-hop culture while forging links between older and younger Americans. Dyson is the author of “April 4, 1968,” “Making Malcolm X,” “I May Not Get There with You,” “Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye,” “Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind?,” and more.

Dyson’s visit is sponsored by TCL’s PILAU program as part of its “Inspire Lecture Series.” Other presenters have included accomplished author Clifton Taulbert , talented playwright Pearl Cleage, celebrity Judge Glenda Hatchett, and Chauncey Mayfield, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mayfield Gentry Realty Advisors LLC.

For more information, please contact  Alicia Coleman at acoleman@tcl.edu or 843.470.6044.