The latest news and comment on philosopher and academic Cornel West
July 2024
Who is running for president in 2024? Harris, Trump and the full list of candidates
Trump has accepted the Republican nomination while Kamala Harris has secured enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic nominee
April 2024
Cornel West announces running mate for independent US presidential bid
Melina Abdullah joins former Harvard professor’s long-shot bid in US presidential race
January 2024
Thousands march on Washington to demand ceasefire in Gaza
Flyers indicate protesters came from as far as Florida, Minnesota, Texas and Wisconsin to protest war and US aid to Israel
December 2023
Biden will have ‘LBJ moment’ and not run for re-election, Cornel West says
Politics Weekly America
Why are third-party presidential candidates a threat to Biden in 2024?
November 2023
With the US election a year away, most Americans don’t want Biden or Trump
Polls continue to show both presidential frontrunners ‘as tied as tied can be’, with third-party candidates tying for a distant third
October 2023
‘There is no alternative’: Cornel West, presidential hopeful, is not backing down
The 70-year-old progressive scholar says he’s not seeking to steal Joe Biden votes, but instead trying to woo alienated non-voters
September 2023
Third-party candidates will help Trump win
Robert Reich
Springsteen, Dolly Parton and the Killers: songs presidential candidates think make them look good
June 2023
Cornel West announces US presidential campaign with the People’s party
The 70-year-old activist, intellectual and democratic socialist said on Twitter that he will be a candidate for the 2024 contest
July 2021
Cornel West accuses Harvard University of ‘spiritual bankruptcy’
Author and activist announced his departure in March but has now published resignation letter which cites ‘superficial diversity’ and ‘spiritual rot’
October 2020
The G2 interview
Cornel West: 'George Floyd's public lynching pulled the cover off who we really are'
As the US philosopher and civil rights activist looks ahead to the presidential election, he discusses Joe Biden, Black Lives Matter and why Barack Obama was more Kenny G than John Coltrane
August 2018
Digital media trends
Cornel West on Q&A: 'Donald Trump is a gangster' – video
With his fiery brand of oratory, the philosopher and activist speaks about the decaying soul of the United States under a Trump presidency. The Australian Liberal senator Eric Abetz rejects West's view by pointing to burgeoning employment under Trump
December 2017
Ta-Nehisi Coates quits Twitter after public row with Cornel West
West called Coates ‘neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle’ in Guardian column that provoked furious debate in black and activist circles
September 2015
Cornel West: Bernie Sanders is an insurgent on par with Jesse Jackson
Leading African American supporter of the independent senator running for president says Sanders campaign ‘is even more progressive’ than Jackson’s
June 2015
Cornel West: Australia is on the path to US-style fascism
Any country that connects mass surveillance, corporations, big money and even bigger government is in trouble, says the American academic
April 2015
The Cornel West-Michael Eric Dyson feud is petty. Black people are dying in the streets
Gary Younge
The circular confrontation is of such an insular nature there are no sides to take, just disappointment that the two academics are fighting one another
October 2014
The only 'outside agitators' left in Ferguson are the white cops who don't live here
Nyle Fort in St Louis
Nyle Fort: When conservatives and liberals in power put protestors in a box, how can we have any progress?
Clergy among dozens arrested on final day of 'Ferguson October' protests
Hundreds marched on Ferguson police station in ‘Weekend of Resistance’ to protest killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown
St Louis protests: Ferguson activists reject religious leaders’ platitudes
Younger black generation rails at ineffectiveness of peaceful tactics as day of mass civil disobedience begins across city
