Dr. Cornel West: Black Prophetic Fire

October 28, 2014 – Segment 2

I talk with the inimitable Dr. Cornel West! The author and Union Theological Seminary professor joins me to discuss his new book Black Prophetic Fire (in Dialogue with and Edited by Christa Buschendorf). In Black Prophetic Fire, West offers a new perspective on six ninetheenth- and twentieth century African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells.

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