As prominent Black Lives Matter activists, including DeRay McKesson, Johnetta Elzie, and Cornel West, were being arrested outside the St. Louis federal courthouse, the executive of St. Louis County declared an emergency in Ferguson. The St. Louis County police department, who last night exchanged gunfire with and…
Sunday evening, The New Republic published its latest polemic, “The Ghost of Cornel West.” Written by Black Public Intellectual™ Michael Eric Dyson, the 10,000-word essay thoroughly castigates Cornel West, the well-known social critic and former Princeton professor who believes himself to be a prophet.
Back in August, talk show host Tavis Smiley and Princeton professor Cornel West embarked on an 11-state "poverty tour," footage from which is airing this week on Smiley's PBS program. The two men appeared on tonight's Factor (broadcast from Boston in front of an audience) for what was supposed to be a poverty-themed…
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The Strokes' Fabrizio Moretti is 28 today. Scandal-plagued district attorney-turned-TV talking head Jeanine Pirro is 57, as is American Express CEO Ken Chenault. Afro-lovin' Princeton professor Cornel West is 55. And New York Times columnist (and now HBO consultant) Frank Rich is 59.
A professor of religion at Princeton University, West is one of the foremost—and most controversial—African-American scholars in the country.
[Scholar and activist Cornel West at this past weekend's BET Awards in Washington; image via AP]
Cornel West takes time away from his busy teaching schedule to discuss his new record, Never Forget: "50 Cent, Snoop, Game, Nelly. On one level, I love those brothers, because their artistic and aesthetic work is a part of who I am... On the other hand, I challenge those brothers because I'm just against misogyny. I'm…
