CORNEL WEST

New York Times­ best-selling author Cornel West is one of Americas most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom the streets the prisons or the church Dr. Wests penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades. Yet as he points out in this new memoir Ive never taken the time t...

Almost one-hundred years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois proposed the notion of the ""talented tenth,"" an African American elite that would serve as leaders and models for the larger black community. In this unprecedented collaboration, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Cornel West--two of Du Bois's most prominent intellectual descendants--reassess that relation...

Taking Emerson as his starting point, Cornel West's basic task in this ambitious enterprise is...