Dr. Cornel West is one of the most brilliant intellectuals of our time. He is known as a philosopher, activist and academic. He was born on June 2, 1953, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but grew up in Sacramento, California, with his three other siblings. His mother was an elementary school teacher and his father was a civilian administrator in the United States Air Force. As a young man, he found great interest in the social and economic restoration of African Americans; he participated in civil rights marches and fought against the glaring void that existed at his high school and many other schools, namely the absence of black studies classes. The emergence of its activists came from the illustrious character Malcolm X and the ferocity of the Black Panther movement. In 1970, Dr. West attended the prestigious Harvard University and graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Near Eastern Languages ​​and Civilizations. He then began studying at Princeton University, where he received his master's and doctoral degrees in philosophy in 1980. He became the first African to...