Brother West (18 page)
The Grand Foursome at Union Theological Seminary: (L to R) Cornel West; James Cone; James Forbes, Jr.; and James Washington [Laima Druskis/Union Theological Seminary Records at The Burke Library (Columbia University Libraries) at Union Theological Seminary, New York City]
Top: “Black Intellectuals in the Age of Crack,”
November 1992—(L to R) bell hooks; Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr.; Cornel West; Glenn Loury; Eugene Rivers; Margaret Burnham; and moderator Kwame Anthony Appiah [© M. Stewart]
Right: Atlanta 1993 [© Robin Nelson/Black Star]
Bottom: (L to R) Cornel West and Reverend Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou getting arrested protesting an unjust war in Iraq, 2004 [Courtesy of Cornel West collection]
The angelic artist Alice Coltrane, wife of John
The Matrix: the inimitable Roscoe Lee Browne and the renowned Laurence Fishburne
The great Smokey Robinson
The genius Michael Eric Dyson and the soulful Sam Morris of Sam and Dave [© Isaac Singleton, Spotlight Productions, Inc./The Smiley Group, Inc.]
All additional photographs courtesy of Cornel West collection
Top: Teaching “Intro to African American Studies” at Princeton, 2008 [Courtesy of Brian Wilson/ Princeton University]
Middle left: The Power of Paideia: Freshmen Seminar “The Tragic, the Comic, and the Political,” Princeton University [Courtesy of Denise Applewhite/Princeton University]
Middle right: Spelman College commencement, 2009 [Courtesy of Spelman College Office of Communications]
Bottom: The Cornel West Wall on Martin Luther King Boulevard, Trenton, NJ by Luv One, 2009 [Courtesy of Luv One]
My beloved mother Irene B. West [Courtesy of Marcellus Brooks]
