Cornel West 
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SOURCE: Al Jazeera
4/30/2021
The Real ‘Second-Class Citizens’ Of Academia
by Donald Earl Collins
Cornel West's complaints of being treated like a second-class citizen by Harvard may reflect disrespectful treatment. But thousands of adjunct professors experience worse as a matter of routine on the front lines of American universities.
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/8/2021
Cornel West Is Leaving Harvard After Tenure Dispute
Dr. West’s dispute over tenure put a new focus on complaints that Black and Latino professors are underrepresented in the ranks of tenured professors, not just at Harvard.
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SOURCE: JStor
12-25-17
Cornel West Says Neoliberalism Has Failed Us
"As things become more hopeless, we have to fight more intensely because of issues of integrity, honesty, decency, truth, justice.”
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SOURCE: NYT
12-22-17
Past Debates Echo in Split Between Cornel West and Ta-Nehisi Coates
There was no Twitter to fan the flames when W.E.B. Du Bois sparred with Booker T. Washington and Malcolm X argued with Martin Luther King Jr.
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SOURCE: Vox
5-24-16
Bernie Sanders picks Cornel West to help write Democratic platform
West represents a black intellectual critique of Hillary Clinton — and of a middle-class black establishment that's chosen comfort over change.
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SOURCE: New York Magazine
8-26-14
Cornel West and the Insular World of the Obama-Hating Left
"Tom Frank, an anti-Obama leftist, interviews Cornel West, another anti-Obama leftist, in a conversation so deeply marinated in shared assumptions that, at one point, both interviewer and interviewee agree that nobody disagrees with them."
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