Cornel West
Born
2 June 1953 (72)
Place of Birth
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Biography
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 ro...
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.
Filmography (40)
De "Matrix" à "Sense8", la révolution Wachowski
2024
Tax Broke
2024
137 Shots
2021
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
Bernie Blackout
2020
We Are George Floyd
2020
No Safe Spaces
2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
The Corporate Coup D'État
2018
American Tap
2018
The Black Bloc: Inside America’s Hard Left
2017
Chasing Trane
2017
An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
2017
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
America's Election 2016: South Carolina's Black Vote
2016
Kareem: Minority of One
2015
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
Owned & Operated
2012
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
2011
East Meets West: Hindi & Christian Perspectives on God, Love, & Spiritual Activism
2011
Fear of a Black Republican
2011
Still Bill
2010
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009
Stand
2009
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
2009
Examined Life
2008
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
2008
Street Fight
2005
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
The Matrix Revolutions
2003
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
2003
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
1998
Black Is… Black Ain’t
1995
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
1994
The Issue Is Race: A Crisis in Black and White
1992
Fariba