Publisher's Synopsis
In the wake of yet another set of police killings of black men, Michael Eric Dyson wrote a tell-it-straight, no holds barred piece for the NYT this past July 7: 'Death in Black and White.' Comments were closed after they hit 2500, and Beyoncé and Isabel Wilkerson tweeted it. Dyson has been in the media non-stop since. 50 years ago, Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Dyson believes he was wrong. In 'Tears We Cannot Stop,' he argues that if we make real racial progress, we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
