Speaking the Truth from Boston Review. Cornel West and Deborah Chasman discuss the disproportionately white publishing world, the responsibilities and ...
The increase of racist incidents in Baltimore, Ferguson, Charlottesville and nationwide, alongside movements such as Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock, ...
Cornel West and Robert P. George are celebrated public intellectuals from opposite ends of the political and ideological spectrum. George is a conservative.
Callie Patrick | Monday, April 15, 2019. Calling for the tri-campus community to see their education as a stepping stone toward pursuing their greater purpose, ...
About a year ago, Princeton philosopher Robert P. George came to Chapel Hill to speak about civil discourse and diversity of thought with the University of North ...
Dr. Martin Kilson, the first Black to be named a full professor at Harvard University, died last week. He was 88. A trained political scientist, Kilson began.
SAN LUIS OBISPO — UC Berkeley Gender and Women's Studies faculty member Eric Stanley, Ph.D., will visit Cal Poly on May 14 to give a talk, “Is Love a ...
Forget all the other Democratic candidates: the primary will come down to Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden. If we want to beat Trump, we should stick with Bernie.
Biden is countering Trump's “Make America Great Again” slogan with “Make America Moral Again.” But bipartisan deals with Strom Thurmond, the crime bill, ...
"If you surrender to the air, you can ride it." This Toni Morrison quote opens Beyoncé's Netflix film "Homecoming" about her historic and groundbreaking ...
Martin Kilson, a political scientist who was the first tenured African American professor at Harvard University and who helped lay the foundation for collegiate ...
“When I decided to do Coachella,” Beyoncé says in the voiceover for her new Netflix documentary Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, “instead of me pulling out ...
A mentor to colleague Cornel West, Kilson opened up the study of Blacks within the political science sphere at the school and creating a dialogue for African and ...
Taking a lesson from his 2016 loss to Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders is dedicating more time in his speeches to discussing systemic racism and discrimination.
Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel R. West '74 will return to teaching African and African American Studies 10: “Introduction to African ...
Cornel West, Harvard professor, recording artist and actor in two movies of “The Matrix” trilogy, will be speaking in Westminster on Friday, March 29. West is set ...
On Thursday, February 28th, Rhode Island College (RIC) played host to Dr. Cornel West to close out their Black History Month events. “Dr. West is one of the ...
Cornel West, professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard University and a prominent public intellectual, will deliver the 25th annual Hesburgh ...
I see that Cornel West, outspoken champion of left-wing politics, is scheduled to speak at our local bastion of leftist thought, the University of Oregon.
More than thirty minutes before the keynoters were scheduled to take their places, an at-capacity Goodson Chapel already was engaged in a reunion of friends, ...
Half an hour before his lecture began Friday afternoon, Harvard University professor and renowned civil rights activist Cornel West could be spotted giving his ...
SAN LUIS OBISPO — Renowned educator, philosopher, author and activist Cornel West will be the keynote speaker for Cal Poly's second annual Martin Luther ...
PROVIDENCE — Political activist and social critic Cornel West will give a talk at Rhode Island College on Feb. 28 in observance of Black History Month. West is ...
In response to President Trump's tweet on his concern of white farmers in South Africa, Dr. Cornel West tells CNN's Anderson Cooper that Trump is "on his way ...
This week, The Gist, the daily news and culture podcast I host for Slate, turned 5 years old. To celebrate, my producers and I put out a special week of ...
Cal Poly community members filled the Performing Arts Center Pavilion Wednesday evening to listen to activist, philosopher and author Cornel West in a ...
In spirited discussion, two leading public intellectuals hold firm on the value of open debate and liberal arts education. Cornel West and Robert George between ...
What happened to civil, public discourse in America? Tha's a question that leading intellectuals Cornel West and Robert George are attempting to answer as ...
Prairie View A&M University will host African-American studies scholar and author Cornel West as a part of a scheduled conversation with university President ...
As part of America Media's “Civility in America” speaker series, Cornel West and Robert P. George sat down with America's editor in chief Matt Malone, S.J., for a ...
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech about racial inequality in front of approximately 7,000 students at Sacramento State College, now ...
Political philosophers Robert George, left, and Cornel West will discuss “How to Agree to Disagree” at Rochester Institute of Technology's Center for ...
From Trump in the U.S. to Bolsonaro in Brazil, ordinary people in large democracies are discontented and shifting right, what can progressives do about it?
He's considered one of the country's most visible intellectuals, noted for the way he expresses his views on racism, politics and even pop culture. A conversation ...
After a 19-year absence, Dr. Cornel West will return to Harvard University to teach a course in African and African-American Studies, according to the school's ...
With his fiery brand of oratory, the philosopher and activist speaks about the decaying soul of the United States under a Trump presidency. The Australian ...
Cornel West, a prominent social critic, author, academic, political activist whose area of focus is the role of race, gender and class in America and author of 20 ...
Professor Cornel West was responding to a question pertaining to the global political landscape in a recent interview with TheRealNews. The interviewer asked ...
Like democracy itself, this film assumes such a broad mandate and has such noble intentions that indicating its shortcomings seems almost beside the point.
On March 29, political activist Cornel West visited McDaniel College's WMC Alumni Hall for the College's annual Ira G. Zepp, Jr. Memorial Lecture. Ira Zepp, who ...
A trio of high-profile black scholars and politicians on Tuesday called for more details in the case of embattled Prof. Joseph Wilson, ex-staffer in Brooklyn ...
Promising a different syllabus than the ones in the past, West called the new and improved curriculum a "fusion of the philosophical, the historical and the ...
The professor will cover the topics of education, humanity and civic engagement Dr. Cornell West is scheduled to address the Chicago State University campus ...
Pop quiz! What do Beyoncé and John D. Rockefeller have in common? At first glance, the two American icons couldn't be more different. Beyoncé Giselle ...
Vice President for Communications Ruth Jackson sat down with Cornel West in April, shortly before he delivered the keynote speech in Lorimer Chapel for the ...
Even in this age of super-diffuse media *content*, watching PBS still feels like eating your fiber and vegetables. 'Reconstruction,' a new four-hour documentary ...
I first read Dr. Cornel West's incredible book, “Race Matters,” in 1993. It was life-altering. West's intellectual heft, his moral courage, and his gravitas were ...
First published in 1993 on the anniversary of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Cornel West's “Race Matters” offers a critical examination of multiracial ...
A public feud between two of America's top black intellectuals has led one of them to abandon Twitter. Cornel West, author of the well-known Race Matters, has ...
How can universities be a force for social good in turbulent times? At an MIT talk on Wednesday evening, the prominent philosopher Cornel West had a clear ...
WASHINGTON (RNS) — The right-leaning Robert P. George and the left-leaning Cornel West may not agree ideologically, but the two intellectuals came to the ...
We recently had the painful experience of watching Cornel West on Tucker Carlson Tonight justifying democratic socialism, which is not new to America (it is the ...
The first time I met Cornel West was at Disney World. He wasn't hard to spot. I didn't want to bother him — I was with my in-laws, he was with a young member of ...
If there's real beef between the Harvard philosopher Cornel West and The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates, Coates says he doesn't understand it. West is a vocal ...
On a cold, crisp morning when a white supremacist group had threatened to churn Princeton into a molten mess of social upheaval, hundreds of protestors ...
CNN's decision to drop Marc Lamont Hill has met with resistance on the left, with some prominent progressives calling for the network to rehire him and ...
At Tuesday's event, Cornel West spoke with conviction and compassion, demonstrating care for his audience. Even as the event reached its scheduled end, ...
WASHINGTON (RNS)—The right-leaning Robert P. George and the left-leaning Cornel West may not agree ideologically, but they came to the nation's capital to ...
The ongoing discussion that was, until a few days ago, taking place between Ta-Nehisi Coates, a columnist for the Atlantic and best-selling author of We Were ...
See below for a fascinating discussion between Cornel West and Anderson Cooper on Gov. Ralph Northam, racism, redemption, etc. I've added a transcription ...
Cornel West delivered an impassioned speech Friday evening to a standing-room-only audience at the University of Virginia's Old Cabell Hall, dealing with ...
There is no doubt that West's prophetic voice and criticism of multiple inequalities is a crucial portion of how Black America progresses toward liberation. In many ...
EAST ST. LOUIS — In his trademark gripping, combustible and yet reverential way, Dr. Cornel West, well-known political and social activist, Harvard University ...
Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University. He has published ...
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College is hosting a conference marking the 25th anniversary of “Race Matters” by Cornel West. The conference starts ...
The following is a script from "Cornel West" which aired on March 20, 2016. James Brown is the correspondent. Alvin Patrick, producer. Cornel West is a different ...
A few months ago, I was at a Bernie Sanders rally in Birmingham, Ala., surrounded by white people excited to see their democratic socialist Santa Claus. After a ...
More than 20 books bear his name; he speaks across the country on stages and cable TV screens. He's made a name for himself as a prime provocateur, ...
Philosopher and activist Dr. Cornel West stopped by "Anderson Cooper 360" on Thursday to talk racism as it relates to President Donald Trump, saying the.
Ideological odd couple Robert George and Cornel West issue joint statement -- attracting thousands of signatures -- in wake of shouting down of a speaker at ...
An interview with Dr. Cornel West, professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Race.
I'm writing this from the third floor of the brownstone in Pittsburgh's Northside that my wife and I have been renting for a year and a half now. I'm in a bedroom ...
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