And phd in philosophy at princeton. He has written more than 20 books and has edited 13. He is best known for his classics race matters and democracy matters and his memoir brother west, living and loving out loud. He appears frequently on the colbert report, cnn and cspan, and he also made his film debut in the matrix, and he was a commentator on the official trilogy released in 2004. Dr. Ck prophetic fire, with christa book, buschendorf presents a perspective on six africanamerican leaders dubois, martin. Luther king jr. , ellen baker, malcolm x and otto barnett. Examine the impact of these men and women within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines, providing new insights that humanize all of these wellknown actors, west ines an important step rekindling the black prophetic fire so essential in the age of obama. Helene atwan has been director of the beacon press since october of 1995. She holds a masters degree in English Literature from the university of virginia. Sh
Two very happy to introduce special guests. Dr. Cornell west is a provocative democratic intellectual. At princetonssor university. He also taught at yell, harvard, and its university of paris. He graduated magna cum laude from harvard and philosophy at princeton. He has edited 13 books. Racebest known for matters, democracy matters. Theppears frequently on colbert report, cnn, and cspan. He also in the matrix. His latest book would with a distinguished scholar, bush and dorf, Frederick Douglass, jr. , malcolm king and otto barnett. Examine the impact of these men and women within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines, providing new insights that humanize all of these wellknown actors, west takes an important step in rekindling the black prophetic fire so essential in the age of obama. Helene atwan has been director of the beacon press since october of 1995. She holds a masters degree in English Literature from the university of virginia. She began her career in publish
Look for these house and book stores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv. Org. [applause] my name is Juan Diasgranados and am a a journalist at joe biden is in West Palm Beach and also Vice President of the National Association of black journalists, the miami Fort Lauderdale chapter. Im very happy to introduce two very special guest today. Doctor cornell west is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual, a professor of philosophy and christian practice at Seminary School Professor Emeritus at princeton university. He taught at you but, harvard, and the university of paris did he graduated manga cum laude from harvard and obtain his m. A. And ph. D in philosophy at princeton. Is written more than 20 books and has edited 13. Is best known for his classic race matters and democracy matters and and his memoir brought the west living and loving allowed to keep years prickly on the colbert report, cnn and cspan. He also made his fil
Questions. If you want to question, please use the microphone here on the side. Be brave. But dont ask about weeping. I apologize from us changing the subject, but im curious about the soviet women, to. We really sort of lost track. Has no one written anything . The question is about the two soviet female cosmonauts. We dont know a huge amount about them. Valentina, in particular, her flight was dismissed by americans who really knew nothing about it. They sort of poohpoohed it and said she didnt do a very good job. But if im not mistaken has been proven to be false. She did a fine job. But this is not the soviet union suddenly making a stand on behalf of women because no one in flew again from us 20 years. We dont know a whole lot about her. We know morbus that lana was an accomplished liar. A wonderful story of the pokemon to be the bare bare outline of it for now. Sally after her flight is on a publicity tour that theyll have to do it one of the places they go was budapest for an In
Igniting hearts and minds. And thats what we like to think were doing with our publishing program. Well, some very well known people are publishing this fall with beacon. Tell us about some of your books. Well, were very proud to have back with us cornel west whose first book, race matters, was published by beacon 20 years ago and who has become a rather famous leader in the field of black prophetic fire and whos writing this book about this very important part of our culture. And hes looking at many of the great figures in the black prophetic tradition in america. And one of them is Martin Luther king jr. , of course. So hes also edited a book for us called the radical king. Because we are the exclusive trade publishers of all of kings work and have been for the last phi years. Five years. So all of kings work for the trade, for general readers, general bookstores is published by beacon press which im very proud of. And this new edition which was curated entirely by cornell west is lo