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Cornel West

Presidential candidate and chair of the Union Theological Seminary, which is affiliated with Columbia University.

StorySep 12, 2011

Attica Is All of Us: Cornel West on 40th Anniversary of Attica Prison Rebellion

StoryAug 09, 2011

“A Declaration of War on the Poor”: Cornel West and Tavis Smiley on the Debt Ceiling Agreement

StoryNov 19, 2010

Cornel West on Charles Rangel, Bush & Kanye West, and Why Obama Admin “Seems to Have Very Little Concern for Poor People”

StorySep 30, 2009

Dr. Cornel West Releases Long-Awaited Memoir, “Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud”

StoryJul 22, 2009

Cornel West and Carl Dix on Race and Politics in the Age of Obama

StoryNov 19, 2008

Cornel West on the Election of Barack Obama: “I Hope He Is a Progressive Lincoln, I Aspire to Be the Frederick Douglass to Put Pressure on Him”

StoryJun 28, 2007

Renowned Princeton Professor Cornel West Assesses the Democratic Presidential Field

StoryMar 13, 2007

Cornel West on “What It Means to Be a Leftist in the 21st Century”

StoryMay 28, 2004

Toni Morrison & Cornel West: A Historic Discussion on the State of the World, the 50th Anniversary of the Brown Decision and Condoleezza Rice

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