Cast & creator
Cornel West
Best known for The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, 30 Rock
Cornel Ronald West is an American philosopher, author, critic, actor, civil rights activist and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. West is the Class of 1943 University Professor at Princeton University, where he teaches in the Center for African American Studies and in the Department of Religion. West is known for his combination of political and moral insight and criticism and his contribution to the post-1960s civil rights movement. The bulk of his work focuses on the role of race, gender, and class in American society and the means by which people act and react to their "radical conditionedness". West draws intellectual contributions from such diverse traditions as the African American Baptist Church, pragmatism and transcendentalism.
Also known as: Cornel Ronald West
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Filmography (54)
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The Colbert Report
Self
2005
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
30 Rock
Cornel West
2006
Democracy Now!
Self
2001Democracy Now!
Self (archive footage)
2001
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Q&A
Self - Panelist
2008
The Matrix Reloaded
Councillor West
2003
The Matrix Revolutions
Councillor West
2003
Charlie Rose
Self
1991
The Chris Rock Show
1997
Sinister
Thanks
2012
Black in the 80s
Self
2005
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Don Sexton
2009
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self
2021
Chasing Trane
Self - Philosopher
2017
Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal
Self
2013
Israelism
Self
2023
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
Self
2009
Motown 40: The Music Is Forever
Self
1998
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Self (as Dr. Cornel West)
2008
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Self
2021Stand
Self
2009
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
2014
The Corporate Coup D'État
Self - Philosopher
2018
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Self
1995Tax Broke
Self
2024Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Self - Harvard University
2019
The Matrix Recalibrated
Self
2004The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load
Self
2003
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
Self
2014
Kareem: Minority of One
Self
2015
Fear of a Black Republican
Self
2011
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool
Self
1994
No Safe Spaces
Self
2019
The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique
Self
2011
De "Matrix" à "Sense8", la révolution Wachowski
Self - Postcolonialism Philosopher
2024
The Big Scary “S” Word
Self
2020
An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story
Self
2017
Bernie Blackout
Self
2020We Are George Floyd
Self
2020
Examined Life
Self
2008
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Self
2021
Street Fight
Self
2005
Still Bill
Self
2010The Issue Is Race: A Crisis in Black and White
Self
1992American Tap
Self
2018
Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story
Self
2020
Owned & Operated
Cornel West
2012
The Black Bloc: Inside America’s Hard Left
Self
2017
137 Shots
self
2021
Fariba
East Meets West: Hindi & Christian Perspectives on God, Love, & Spiritual Activism
Self
2011