City Arts & Lectures, Michael Eric Dyson in conversation with Carvell Wallace

As a speaker, writer and ordained Baptist minister, Michael Eric Dyson is known for his passionate, pointed discussion of race in America. Exemplary of his style is his 2016 New York Times opinion piece “Death in Black and White,” written in the wake of the violent deaths of two black men, Alton B. Sterling and Philando Castile, and after an attack on police officers in Dallas. This essay provided the roots for his book “Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America,” released in January from St. Martin’s Press.

Dyson, who is also professor of sociology at Georgetown University, joins Carvell Wallace in conversation at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec.