Cornel West - Love and Justice

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Tue, 07/28/2015 - 9:00am to 10:00am
Cornel West - Love and Justice

Cornel West is a leading public intellectual and scholar. He has taught at Princeton, Harvard, Yale and the University of Paris. He is now teaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York. With his preacher-like cadences and passionate delivery, he is much in demand as a speaker and draws huge audiences everywhere. Among his many books are Race Matters, The Rich and the Rest of Us and Black Prophetic Power.

From Tamir Rice to Akai Gurley the names of African American men and boys killed by police keep piling up. The lack of a grand jury indictment in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson sparked a protest movement with signs and shouts of "Hands Up. Don't Shoot" and "Black Lives Matter." The death of Eric Garner in New York was videoed around the world. His plea of "I Can't Breathe" became a rallying cry. Many people are asking where is justice? Illusions have been shattered that we live in a "post-racial" society. Fundamental questions are being raised. Is property more important than people? Racism, poverty and inequality run deep. African-Americans are disproportionately incarcerated. Dr. King believed in the transformative power of love and as he said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."

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