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The University of New Mexico's Chicana and Chicano Studies (CCS) department is hosting GRAMMY award-winner Dr. Arturo O’Farrill and renowned scholar, philosopher, and poet, Dr. Cornel West. They will perform their latest recording, “Four Questions” (ZOHO...

UVU celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement last week with the ‘Dream Again, March Forward’ event where keynote speaker Dr. Cornel West spoke to the community about his legacy and more.

Two scholars with Ivy League ties will speak Jan. 22 at Oregon State University about the need for universities to lead the way in reviving the art of civil discourse in a society increasingly characterized by division and confrontation.

By Verbal Adam | OBSERVER Correspondent - Dr. Cornel West, acclaimed writer, activist, and 2024 presidential candidate, was welcomed by a crowd of over 100 people at the Guild Theater on September 1st for the PoHop poetry event, where he spoke about the importance of raising our voices against injustice.

The public intellectual, a socialist, mounts a long-shot bid and denounces ‘neofascist’ Trump and ‘milquetoast neoliberal’ Biden.

Visit a number of art fairs this week in Los Angeles, including Frieze, Felix, the L.A. Art Show and SPRING/Break. Check out ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day on the cheap. Attend a virtual conversation with Cornel West.

Two prominent educators and intellectuals – Cornel West, an outspoken voice in progressive politics in the U.S., and Robert P. George, who has been called America’s “most influential conservative Christian thinker” – will deliver the Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture at DePauw Dec. 7.

Philosopher, activist, actor and intellectual leader Cornel West will bring his signature gift for oratory to UCLA as he delivers the UC Regents’ Lecture as part of his weeklong residency at the at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

The lecture, which will be held Wednesday, May 11, at 5 p.m., is free and open to the public.

Two prominent intellectuals will give Ubben lecture April 7 about ways to resolve the nation’s partisan divide.