Left-wing academic Cornel West announced Thursday he was no longer running for president as a member of the Green Party and would now be running as an independent—marking the second time since ...

People's Party Presidential candidate Cornel West criticized Robert Kennedy Jr. on Thursday while speaking about the Democratic presidential candidate's stance on Israel and Palestine and said, "He ...

Independent presidential candidate Cornel West can appear on the ballot in Maine, the state's secretary of state has ruled. Shenna Bellows' decision came Tuesday, about a week after the withdrawal of ...

Tavis Smiley, the PBS talk show host and close friend to Cornel West, often credits West with having a “useable intellect.” Unlike many academics, Smiley contends, West provides analysis and insight ...

Dr. Cornel West, a radical philosopher, socialist, and political activist, and Dr. Robert George, a socially conservative Christian thinker. But they are friends, teach together and even travel the ...

Today, we spend the hour with two of the leading African-American thinkers of our time — Cornel West and Toni Morrison — in a public talk hosted by The Nation Institute. Cornel West has been described ...

Running for president is hard. Running for president without the backing of a major party is even harder — a reality Cornel West is only beginning to confront. The famed philosopher’s independent ...

Long-shot presidential candidate Cornel West tapped Melina Abdullah, a professor and one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, as his running mate for his independent presidential bid. West ...

Dr. Cornel West, the liberal activist and a prominent philosopher, shared his "candid" resignation letter to Harvard University on Tuesday in which he accused the Divinity School of being in "decline ...

The philosopher and activist Cornel West launched a presidential bid Monday, saying he would be running as People’s Party candidate. The announcement drew a mixed and heated reaction online. Some are ...

Cornel West, a left-wing activist and philosophy professor who has published a range of work on class and race, announced Monday he would run for president as a candidate for the People’s Party, ...

Cornel West speaks at the 2019 Hutchins Center Honors W.E.B. Du Bois Medal Ceremony at Harvard University on October 22, 2019. (Paul Marotta / Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are ...