Philosopher and prominent civil rights activist Cornel West announced Monday that he is resigning from Harvard University’s Divinity School, which he says is in a state of “decline and decay,” adding that he had been working in “the shadow of Jim Crow,” which “was cast in its new glittering form expressed in the language of superficial diversity.”
Harvard Divinity School philosophy professor Cornel West declared Thursday on CNN International’s “Amanpour” that former President Barack Obama “didn’t have the courage,” or “willingness to fight” for progressive issues the way President Joe Biden does.
Following the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, Harvard Divinity School philosophy professor Cornel West appeared Tuesday evening on The Mehdi Hasan Show.
Harvard Divinity School philosophy professor Cornel West declared Wednesday on CNN’s “Tonight” that American police “have been out of control since the slave patrol.”
Hundreds of professors have launched a nonprofit called the “Academic Freedom Alliance” (AFA) to promote the First Amendment on college campuses. Members of the group range ideologically from conservative to left-wing.
CNN anchor Don Lemon broke down crying Thursday on his show “Tonight” after his Cornel West got emotional calling for Black folk to intervene if they witness a police incident like the one that resulted in the death of George Floyd.
Conservative Princeton University Professor Robert George and Harvard University Professor Cornel West co-wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe last week in which they called on Americans to set aside their differences and come together for the betterment of the country.
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Princeton University Professor Emeritus Dr. Cornel West accused President Donald Trump of “vicious name-calling, unbelievable attacks and assaults” on African-Americans with “racist language,” which the professor said cancels out any accomplishments such as low unemployment rates.
Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” host Anderson Cooper choked up during Princeton University Professor Emeritus Dr. Cornel West’s description of George Floyd’s funeral and where he viewed its place in the history of civil rights.
Appearing Friday on CNN, far-left activist and professor Cornel West reacted to the ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd, stating, “thank God we have people in the streets,” and judging the United States is a “failed social experiment.”
Harvard professor Cornel West told thousands of attendees at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) rally in New Hampshire on the eve of the state’s Democrat primary that “neo-fascist gangster” Donald Trump must be removed from office.
Actors Tim Robbins and Danny DeVito were among the Hollywood stars present at Bernie Sanders’s rally in Venice, California, on Saturday, with the socialist firebrand promising a “political revolution” in America should he win the White House next November.
None other than Cornel West on Tuesday evening said former Vice President Joe Biden “disqualifies” himself from “having any moral authority” on “lynching” because he previously said former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment could be viewed as a “partisan lynching.”
On Tuesday night’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” Harvard professor Cornel West called for protests if President Donald Trump was not held accountable for things like referring to the impeachment inquiry as a “lynching” on social media.
Thursday on “Democracy Now,” Harvard professor Cornel West called Donald Trump’s presidency a “fascist Frankenstein,” and argued it was a “product” of superficial media designed as entertainment. West said, “One of the reasons why what you all do is so crucial is
Cornel West believes President Donald Trump is becoming the “American version of a Hitler and a Mussolini” after Trump told members of the “Squad” to go back to their countries of origin even though three of them were born in the United States.
“The Young Turks” co-hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian on Wednesday criticized conservative commentator Candace Owens’ recent debate performance against progressive professor Cornel West on the Fox News Channel.
A major donor who introduced 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) at his first 2020 “grassroots fund-raiser” previously advocated for the South to secede so it could stop “dumbing down national politics.”
Thursday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” Harvard professor and political activist Cornel West said President Donald Trump “chooses to be demonic.” West said, “The important thing is he’s at a moment in these last days where it looks like brother Donald Trump, gangster,
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Harvard Divinity School Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Dr. Cornel West argued that Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who West endorsed, “would’ve won if he had a chance.” He further slammed former
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Harvard Divinity School Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Dr. Cornel West stated that President Trump is the chicken of the “tradition of white male mediocrity and mendacity” coming home to roost.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “First 100 Days,” Harvard University Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Dr. Cornel West stated he’s “committed to unsettling students in public spaces…you want to have a commitment to unsettling and unnerving
Marxist Harvard Professor Cornel West and conservative Princeton Professor Robert George have introduced a statement that defends the rights of professors and students to express themselves on college campuses.
President Barack Obama’s former National Economic Council director, Larry Summers, says the economic advice being given to President-elect Donald Trump is “beyond voodoo economics” and is equal to “creationism.”
Earlier this week on the syndicated progressive public affairs program “Democracy Now!” Cornel West weighed in on the current state of the Democratic Party in the wake of last month’s presidential election loss. West argued that unlike Sen. Bernie Sanders
Dr. Cornel West is refusing to fall in line behind Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, announcing his support for Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein despite his serving on the Democratic Platform Committee at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Princeton Professor Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary Dr. Cornel West stated that Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, doesn’t “have a whole lot of integrity.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) held one of the last rallies of his California primary campaign in the Bay Area on Monday, where he defied the Associated Press projection of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee regardless of Tuesday’s result.
SAN DIEGO, California — Sen. Bernie Sanders has been working down-to-the-wire to woo California’s Latino voters ahead of Tuesday’s primary.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel has a right to be protected by the United States, Bernie Sanders, a candidate in the primaries of the Democratic Party, said. Sanders, who has spoken out in favor of Palestinian interests as well as
Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University Dr. Cornel West argued that Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is attempting to be “fake and phony” by referencing Jim
Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University Dr. Cornel West argued that there’s a “black political class that confuses the gravy train with the freedom train” that is afraid of Democratic
Monday on CNN’s “New Day,” professor and activist Cornel West likened Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to Milli Vanilli, the 1990’s pop duo that was disgraced over lip-synching their Grammy award-wining album. West said, “Sister Hillary Clinton is the Milli
Dr. Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice, a Professor Emeritus at Princeton, argued GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is “a multi-billionaire pseudo-populist with autocratic sensibilities, and some fascist proclivities” on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time.” During
Director Quentin Tarantino joined hundreds of demonstrators in a a march against police brutality on Saturday in Washington Square Park in New York.
A San Francisco police sergeant fatally shot a man shortly after noon on Thursday in downtown San Francisco after the suspect got on top of another sergeant, started beating him up, and grabbed his gun. “He’s got my gun! Shoot him!” the
As knife-wielding Palestinian terrorists waged a slew of bloody attacks on Jews in Israel, and five months after bowing to anti-Israel boycotts by canceling a scheduled concert in the Holy Land, recording artist Lauryn Hill appeared in a short video entitled, “When I See Them I See Us,” in a show of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter and Palestinian movements.
Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” Princeton University professor of African American Studies Cornel West said Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly and “Fox & Friends” co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck discussions about the Black Lives Matter movement as a hate group was “white fear grounded
Activist and professor Cornel West told Carol Costello on Thursday’s “CNN Newsroom” that a lack of love is behind the murder of reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, although murderer Vester Flanagan, aka “Bryce Williams,” wrote in his manifesto that he wanted a “race
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor,”activist Cornel West said the “the vicious legacy of white supremacy” and a “redistribution of wealth upwards” has left African-Americans the victims of poverty. West said, “We do have to begin with the
