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Saturday Jun 6 | Baby Center

"Is Obama a setback for black Americans?"

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

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Related Topix: African-American

Thu Jun 04, 2009

FindingDulcinea

Happy Birthday, Cornel West, Author, Professor and Hip-Hop Artist

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.

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Related Topix: Princeton University, Tulsa Metro

Tue Jun 02, 2009

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Cornel West

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 .

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Related Topix: African-American, Activism, Sacramento Metro, Sacramento, CA

Sat May 23, 2009

Black Enterprise

Tavis Smiley Talks Brotherhood, Obama

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

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Tue May 12, 2009

Philly.com

Cornel West inspires at Male Youth Summit in Camden

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.

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Related Topix: African-American, Education Etc., Princeton University, Family, Teenagers

CourierPostOnline

West urges teens to think about their legacy

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.

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Related Topix: Camden, NJ, Education Etc., Princeton University

Sat May 09, 2009

Black Voices

Tavis Smiley Answers a Black Voices Member

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.

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Related Topix: The Tavis Smiley Show, Entertainment, Television, New York Metro, US Politics, Eric Cantor, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, George Bush

Wed May 06, 2009

New Times

Examined Life: Astra Taylor Asks Cornel West and Crew to Take on the Big Question

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

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Related Topix: Michigan, Movies, Entertainment

Thu Apr 30, 2009

Boxoffice

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 .

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Tue Apr 28, 2009

EntertainmentWeekly

TV Review: Prince: 'I was born epileptic'

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.

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Tue Apr 14, 2009

Laughing Meme

Hope vs Optimism

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.

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Fri Apr 10, 2009

Harvard Crimson

Examined Life

"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.

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Mon Apr 06, 2009

The Prox

@Tigers: Some Fun Tweets

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

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Sat Apr 04, 2009

The Corner

So It's 'Dr.' Now, Is It?!?

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.

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Ann Arbor News

Lupe Fiasco, Cornel West highlight day two of Calvin's Festival of Faith & Music

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

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Thu Apr 02, 2009

The Daily Illini

Cornel West to discuss effects of Obama's presidency

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.

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Related Topix: Alpha Phi Alpha, Fraternities, Princeton University, US Politics, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, Jr., African-American

Tue Mar 17, 2009

Notes from a Different Kitchen

A conversation between Rhymefest and Dr. Cornel West

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

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Related Topix: Blog News

Fri Mar 06, 2009

Canada.com

The personal is philosophical

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

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Related Topix: Athens, GA, Movies, Entertainment

Fri Feb 27, 2009

AmSpec Blog

Dispatches from the Academy 2: Great Lines

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

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Related Topix: Union University, Pope Benedict XVI, Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Hugo Chavez

Thu Feb 26, 2009

NewsBlaze

Examined Life Film Review

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.

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