Cornel West News

Cuba hit back Thursday at 60 prominent U.S. black leaders who challenged its race record, with island writers, artists and official journalists calling the criticism an attack on their country's national identity.

Scott McLemee, in Inside Higher Ed , reviews Cornel West's new book : If sketchy in other regards, Brother West is never anything but expansive on how Cornel West feels about Cornel West.

Prolific writer, Princeton professor and American moral philosopher Cornel West will headline Virginia Tech's 2010 Martin Luther King Jr.

This week in the Phoenix , Adam Reilly profiles "atheist superstar" Greg Epstein, Harvard's Humanist chaplain and the author of Good Without God: What A Million Nonreligious People Do Believe .

One of America's most provocative public intellectuals, Dr. Cornel Ronald West has been a champion for racial justice since childhood.

Posted by John Perazzo on Nov 29th, 2009 and filed under Discover the Networks .

A new state revenue forecast is out today. State officials have been bracing for a shock to the system.

Cornel West asked me whether there'd be sunshine when he got to Seattle. It was overcast, so I said he might have to bring it with him.

There's a poetry slam tonight, and a gardening book, a book about climate change, and several other events, too.

Theologian, economist, and WORLDmag.com contributor Anthony Bradley has as his goal nothing less than redefining a term he believes has been hijacked by liberation theology - especially among black theologians and activists such as Cornel West and Jesse Jackson.

School spirit can manifest itself in any number of ways. Enthusiasm over sporting events is just one example; just as important are community action and the Universitya TMs ability to foster an atmosphere of participation and engagement among the community.

October 29, 2009 - This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. For decades now, Cornel West has been a leading voice on politics, religion, race and culture.

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Cornel West is perhaps best known as the author of the best-selling book Race Matters .

Listen to Cornel West for five minutes and you'll get that feeling -- the excitement that takes over when someone extremely convincing is uttering a stream of recommendations.

Plane's due to take off in a few minutes. Awfully tight here in the coach compartment of the big 747, but, as the O'Jays put it, "money can do funny things to some people," and my money's been funny for years, so coach will have to do.

Books: Author Wil Haygood discusses "The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson," 7:15 p.m., Decatur Library, Decatur.

Cornel West is an American philosopher, author, critic, pastor, actor, and civil rights activist.

There is some fine music on trumpeter Terence Blanchard's Concord debut, but it also includes spoken word interludes by academic and activist Dr.

Dozens of internationally recognized writers such as Richard Russo and Cornel West are visiting Boston this weekend.