Cornel West News

Ever since President Obama was elected, there's been a term a bandied about: post-racial America.

Cornel West, a popular professor of religion at Princeton University, has received widespread notoriety for both his intellectual abilities and his knack for sparking public debate over controversial issues.

His influential book Race Matters lamented what he saw as the spiritual impoverishment of the African American underclass and critically examined the "crisis of black leadership" in the .

BlackEnterprise.com: The film focused a lot on the importance of music to the African American culture.

In the cadences of a preacher and with the animation of a rapper, the African American activist-scholar Cornel West yesterday challenged his audience at the Camden School District's Male Youth Summit to achieve greatness through service to others.

A keynote speaker at a male youth summit in Camden on Monday told the audience that honest self-examination, personal accountability and courage are the keys to unlocking their potential and finding their calling in life.

Posted May 7th 2009 11:41AM by Sheryl H. Salomon Filed under: BlackSpin , News When we asked our BV members if you had any questions for Tavis Smiley , you answered loud and clear by e-mail and Twitter , "Yes!" Because our time was limited with the talk show host and author, we chose one question, from Kirk J. of Dover, Del.

That's life: Cornel West opines on the courage to think in the documentary Examined Life .

Filmmaker Astra Taylor, whose previous documentary about the philosopher Slavoj Zizek premiered in 2005, has decided to up the ante in her latest, Examined Life .

In a rare lengthy, two-part interview on PBS' Tavis Smiley tonight and tomorrow night, Prince talks about his difficult relationship with his father, the reasons he's battled so frequently with the music industry, and mentions philosophical talks he has at his house with guest/friends such as academic Cornel West and Smiley himself.

One of the most interesting workshops at the NYC Anarchist Book Fair this year was Matt Hern's talk "Against Tolerance". And one of the most useful ideas I took away was an off hand comment on hope vs.

"Examined Life," points towards the days of Socrates, not only in its opening lines - Socrates' famous defense "The unexamined life is not worth living" reaffirmed millennia later by the booming voice of Cornel West - but in its recreation of a world where philosophers wandered regularly among market places and stone forums.

While researching Twitter and perusing Twitter profiles for an article in today's Prince , I came across some fun tweets.

Way back at the end of 2001 and the beginning of 2002, Larry Summers, then president of Harvard, was tiffing with Cornel West, then a Harvard professor.

Lupe Fiasco, left, and Cornel West were part of Calvin's Festival of Faith & Music on Friday night.

The University's Black Law Students Association, the Student Organization Resource Fee, and the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity will sponsor a guest lecture presented by Princeton University professor Cornel West at 7 p.m. in Foellinger Auditorium.

"The blog your favorite blogger reads...." Tuesday, March 17, 2009 A conversation between Rhymefest and Dr.

It was Plato, a philosopher from Athens, who said the unexamined life is not worth living.

Still reporting from the Making Men Moral Conference in honor of Robert George at Union University .

According to Socrates, "An unexamined life is not worth living," and that quote ostensibly served as the inspiration for this documentary deeply exploring the mindset underpinning American culture.