He's also the author of Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight of Michael Eric Dyson dedicated to Oprah. Sounds like he's more of a shrewd self-promoter than any kind of deep thinker.
"Child of the Streets" who went to Mitt Romney's prep school on scholarship, dropped out, worked in an auto plant, got his girlfriend pregnant, got married and became a youth minister. Like I said, complicated guy.
Wife #3 who also started out as Minister has connections to Daley and Clinton.