Cornel West

Harvard Divinity School Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West and Dartmouth College Professor Susannah Heschel, MTS '76, discuss the question: are there moral lessons for citizens and nations following last week's inauguration?

Author Eddie Glaude and HDS Professor Cornel West discuss a new book against backdrop of racial upheaval.

HDS Professor Cornel West co-hosts the new podcast The Tight Rope, a weekly podcast that takes time to welcome listeners and guests as thought collaborators with West and co-host Brown University Professor Tricia Rose.

In a panel for Baylor University, HDS Professor Cornel West and alum Robert George, MTS '81, speak on faith communities coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, and what can religious leaders do for the communities during this time.

This past year, HDS began a major renewal project on our main campus building, welcomed new Hindu monastics in residence, became inspired—yet again—by the words and work of our faculty and students, and experienced many momentous moments. With 2019 coming...

"There are ways of being nostalgic that are childish, and there are ways that are childlike. The enabling form reinforces your sense of wonder and gets you outside of your ego and narcissism. The disabling form is a matter of wanting to control something...

Professor Davíd Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor for the Study of Latin America delivered the 2019 Convocation address “Toni Morrison Stories: Goodness and Mercy and Mexico.” FULL TRANSCRIPT: [MUSIC PLAYING] [APPLAUSE] RAMONA PETERS: [SPEAKING...

In 2012, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison took the stage at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and spoke to a rapt audience about goodness, altruism, and the literary imagination. On that very same stage Thursday afternoon, Harvard Divinity School (HDS)...

What an honor to be here! What a privilege, what a blessing to salute the Class of 2019, Harvard Divinity School. The first thing we want to do is to acknowledge that we are who we are because somebody loved us. Let’s give it up for Mom, let’s give it up...

HDS Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West will return to teaching African and African American Studies 10: “Introduction to African American Studies” this semester.