Michael Eric Dyson, author of "April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America," will present "Dr. King for the 21st Century" during the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration at Millersville University.

His free, public talk is set for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27, in Lyte Auditorium, Alumni Hall.

Dyson, a 50-year-old native of Detroit, is also the author of "Holler If You Hear Me," a biography of Tupac Shakur, and the New York Times best-seller "Mercy, Mercy Me: The Art, Loves and Demons of Marvin Gaye."

"Effortlessly and with conviction, he weaves together a range of themes from gangsta rap to graduate seminars, deepening them with highly varied and vividly portrayed personal experience," Noam Chomsky said of Dyson.

Dyson, a professor of sociology at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., is also an ordained Baptist minister with a doctorate in religion from Princeton University.

He won the NAACP Image Award twice: in 2004 for his book "Why I Love Black Women," and in 2006 for his book "Is Bill Cosby Right?" which dissected class warfare in black America.