Cornel West

Known for ActingBorn 1953-06-02 (age 73)Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, civil rights activist and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. West is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the Department of Religion. West is known for his combination of political and moral insight and criticism and his contribution to the post-1960s civil rights movement. The bulk of his work focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness". West draws intellectual contributions from such diverse traditions as the African American Baptist Church, pragmatism and transcendentalism.Read more

Movies & web series

Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

Tax Broke

Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

Owned & Operated

Israelism

The Big Scary “S” Word

Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

The Corporate Coup D'État

30 Rock

Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali

Chasing Trane

Kareem: Minority of One

The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique

De "Matrix" à "Sense8", la révolution Wachowski

Still Bill

Bernie Blackout

The Matrix Reloaded

Nas: Time Is Illmatic

Sinister

No Safe Spaces

The Colbert Report

The Matrix Recalibrated

Street Fight

The Matrix Revolutions

James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston

Examined Life

137 Shots

American Tap

The Black Bloc: Inside America’s Hard Left

The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load

Real Time with Bill Maher

Charlie Rose

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

The Chris Rock Show

Q&A

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

When I See Them, I See Us

We Are George Floyd

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America

An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story

Black America since MLK: And still I rise

America's Election 2016: South Carolina's Black Vote

East Meets West: Hindi & Christian Perspectives on God, Love, & Spiritual Activism

Fear of a Black Republican