Cornel West
Known for: Acting
Born: June 2, 1953
Place of birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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.
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Filmography
44 movies · 9 TV shows, newest first
6.8
De "Matrix" à "Sense8", la révolution Wachowski
20249.0
Tax Broke
2024
8.2
Israelism
2023
6.3
137 Shots
2021
7.3
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
2021
5.3
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
NR
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
NR
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
8.0
The Big Scary “S” Word
2020
7.0
Bernie Blackout
2020NR
We Are George Floyd
2020
NR
Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story
2020
7.0
No Safe Spaces
2019NR
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
7.4
The Corporate Coup D'État
20186.0
American Tap
2018
8.0
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
6.0
The Black Bloc: Inside America’s Hard Left
2017
7.3
Chasing Trane
2017
NR
An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
2017
NR
America's Election 2016: South Carolina's Black Vote
2016
7.2
Kareem: Minority of One
2015
1.5
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014
6.9
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
10.0
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
2013
6.9
Sinister
2012
8.8
Owned & Operated
2012
7.2
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
2011
NR
East Meets West: Hindi & Christian Perspectives on God, Love, & Spiritual Activism
2011
NR
Fear of a Black Republican
2011
7.1
Still Bill
2010
5.9
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009NR
Stand
2009
8.0
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
2009
6.5
Examined Life
2008
3.2
Q&A
2008
6.7
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
2008
7.5
30 Rock
2006
7.0
The Colbert Report
2005
6.9
Street Fight
2005
NR
Black in the 80s
2005
7.0
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
6.8
The Matrix Revolutions
20036.1
The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
2003
7.1
The Matrix Reloaded
2003
6.1
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003
NR
Motown 40: The Music Is Forever
1998
4.6
The Chris Rock Show
1997
5.8
Black Is… Black Ain’t
1995
9.0
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
1994NR
The Issue Is Race: A Crisis in Black and White
1992
6.1
Charlie Rose
1991
NR
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