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Cornel West

Cornel West

Actor · Born June 2, 1953 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

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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.

Acted in 9

2020s

  1. 2021

    When I See Them, I See Us

    Movie

No release date

  1. Fariba

    Movie

Appearances37

2020s

  1. 2024

    De "Matrix" à "Sense8", la révolution Wachowski

    Self - Postcolonialism Philosopher

  2. 2023

    Israelism

    Self

    78
  3. 2021

    137 Shots

    self

    64

  4. Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali

    Self

    75

  5. Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

    Self · 3 episodes

    63

  6. Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story

    Self

  7. 2020

    The Big Scary “S” Word

    Self

  8. Bernie Blackout

    Self

  9. Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story

    Self

2010s

  1. 2019

    No Safe Spaces

    Self

  2. 2018

    The Corporate Coup D'État

    Self - Philosopher

  3. 2017

    The Black Bloc: Inside America’s Hard Left

    Self

  4. Chasing Trane

    Self - Philosopher

    72

  5. An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story

    Self

  6. 2015

    Kareem: Minority of One

    Self

  7. 2014

    Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee

    Self

  8. Nas: Time Is Illmatic

    Self

  9. 2013

    Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

    Self

  10. Occupy: The Movie

    Self

  11. 2011

    The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique

    Self

  12. East Meets West: Hindi & Christian Perspectives on God, Love, & Spiritual Activism

    Self

  13. Fear of a Black Republican

    Self

  14. 2010

    Still Bill

    Self

2000s

  1. 2009

    Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy

    Self

  2. 2008

    Examined Life

    Self

  3. Q&A

    Self - Panelist · 1 episode

  4. James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston

    Self (as Dr. Cornel West)

  5. 2005

    The Colbert Report

    Self · 2 episodes

    80

  6. Street Fight

    Self

  7. Black in the 80s

    Self · 3 episodes

  8. 2004

    The Matrix Recalibrated

    Self

  9. 2003

    Real Time with Bill Maher

    Self · 16 episodes

    69
  10. 2001

    Democracy Now!

    Self, Self (archive footage) · 1 episode

1990s

  1. 1998

    Motown 40: The Music Is Forever

    Self

  2. 1995

    Black Is… Black Ain’t

    Self

  3. 1994

    Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool

    Self

  4. 1991

    Charlie Rose

    Self · 1 episode

    71
Thanked in the credits1

2010s

  1. 2012

    Sinister

    Thanks

    64