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GUEST: Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, author of several books including April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death and How It Changed America<\/em><\/p>\n Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced that she will suspend her presidential campaign on Saturday and endorse Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee. Obama has been pressured by the Clinton camp to offer her the Vice Presidential Candidate position. In gathering enough delegates voting for him, Obama has made history in the United States in becoming the first black presidential candidate with a major party. The New York Times today reported on international reaction to the story: “[Obama’s] triumph in the primaries, many said, signaled the defeat of racism, and if Senator Obama became president, his election would presage a departure from what outsiders have broadly depicted as the go-it-alone belligerence of the Bush era.” Despite the exuberance abroad, some members of the black faith community are disturbed by Obama’s recent resignation from the Trinity United Church of Christ, following several controversies involving the statements made by church pastors. Reverend Barbara Reynolds told the Washington Post, “If a politician wants to move up in government, they can come to church and jump and shout, but it is not okay to go to church where they are speaking truth to power and talking about racism, sexism and capitalism.”<\/p>\n Today we spend the hour examining Barack Obama and his relation to the black church, as well as Obama’s foreign policy credentials. We’ll hear first from influential author and speaker Michael Eric Dyson, a frequent guest on Uprising, when he talked about his new book on Martin Luther King, and Obama’s candidacy in Oakland, California. <\/p>\n Michael Eric Dyson has been named by Ebony as one of the hundred most influential black Americans. He is the author of sixteen books, including Holler if You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right? and I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. He is currently University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. His latest book is called April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death and How It Changed America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Support KPFK – Make a pledge at 818-985-5735, or online at www.kpfk.org. GUEST: Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, author of several books including April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death and How It Changed America Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced that she will suspend her presidential campaign on Saturday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Michael](\"http:\/\/content.answers.com\/main\/content\/wp\/en\/thumb\/2\/2d\/180px-Michael_Eric_Dyson.jpg\")
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