Dr. Cornel West is one of the most brilliant intellectuals of our time. He is popularly known as a philosopher, activist and academician. 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 U.S. 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 huge gap in his high school and many other schools, namely the lack of black studies courses. The flourishing of its militants came from the illustrious figure of 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 degree in Near Eastern Languages ​​and Civilizations. He subsequently began studying at Princeton University, where he received his master's degree and doctorate in philosophy in 1980: he became the first African...