Cornel West, born on this day in 1953, is a philosopher, socialist activist and educator, and public intellectual whose works include "Race Matters" and "The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto", co-authored with Tavis Smiley.

The son of a Baptist minister, West's political thought focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society. A radical democrat and advocate for social democracy, West draws intellectual contributions from multiple traditions, including the black Christian church, Marxism (although he identifies as a non-Marxist socialist, believeing the Christian faith and Marxism to be irreconcilable), and transcendentalism.

Among his noted works are "Race Matters" (1994), "Democracy Matters" (2004), and "The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto" (2012), co-authored with Tavis Smiley. In this last work, Smiley and West provide a broad, multi-racial look at the history and experience of poverty in the United States, concluding with a twelve-point program to address this poverty.

West has served as honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, which he has described as "the first multiracial, socialist organization close enough to my politics that I could join". He also described himself as a "radical democrat, suspicious of all forms of authority" in the Matrix-themed documentary "The Burly Man Chronicles".

West was arrested on October 13th, 2014, while protesting against the shooting of Michael Brown and participating in "Ferguson October", and again on August 10th, 2015, while demonstrating outside a courthouse in St. Louis on the one-year anniversary of Brown's death.

-- Cornel West - The Historical Philosophy of W.E.B. Du Bois - Class

-- Race Matters, Cornel West

-- Dr. Cornel West & James H. Cone in Conversation-"Black Prophetic Fire"

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