Cornel West
American philosopher and political activist
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| 2025 | Co-authored 'Truth Matters' with Robert P. George, indicating ongoing intellectual collaboration and engagement with contemporary discourse. |
| 2024 | West returned a donation from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow after public pushback, despite initially defending the donation. |
| 2024 | The Democratic National Committee filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission, arguing that unreported in-kind contributions for signature gathering and legal support in North Carolina and Arizona were illegal. |
| 2024 | Cornel West ran as an independent candidate in the United States presidential election. |
| August 2024 | West's campaign reported being $17,000 in debt, with minimal spending on signature gathering and increasing support from Republican-aligned groups to get on ballots in multiple swing states. |
| August 2024 | A Pennsylvania judge ruled against Cornel West's presidential campaign, agreeing with the Secretary of State's office that his candidacy paperwork was insufficient for ballot access in the state. |
| August 2024 | Cornel West's presidential campaign failed to secure ballot access in Arizona when the Arizona Secretary of State determined that the campaign did not file sufficient paperwork by the state's deadline. |
| August 2024 | Cornel West and his running mate Melina Abdullah were disqualified from the 2024 Michigan presidential election ballot. |
| August 28 2024 | Wisconsin election commissioners, including two Republicans, voted to reject the Democratic National Committee's attempt to remove Cornel West from the state ballot, allowing his presidential campaign to proceed. |
| August 24 2024 | A Michigan judge overruled the disqualification decision and mandated ballot access for Cornel West in the Michigan presidential election. |
| August 16 2024 | The Associated Press reported on Republican operatives attempting to boost Cornel West's presidential campaign in swing states, with the potential aim of helping Donald Trump's election chances. |
| June 2024 | By June, West's campaign had only spent $2,400 on signature gathering efforts between January and June. |
| April 2024 | Trump-aligned activists in North Carolina attempted to support West's ballot access by signing up attendees outside a Trump rally, with the strategic intent of potentially helping Trump's election chances. |
| April 2024 | North Carolina's election board blocked West's party from appearing on the ballot after investigating signature collection, finding that many signatures were invalid or obtained under questionable circumstances. |
| April 10 2024 | Cornel West announced Melina Abdullah as his vice presidential running mate during an appearance on The Tavis Smiley Show, solidifying his presidential campaign's ticket. |
| February 1 2024 | West announced the establishment of the Justice For All Party (JFA), aimed at securing ballot access in select states including Florida, North Carolina, and Washington. |
| January 31 2024 | West created and ran with the 'Justice for All Party' for the presidential election. |
| October 27 2023 | Peter Daou left the West presidential campaign. |
| October 5 2023 | West dropped out of the Green Party primaries and announced plans to run an independent campaign, beginning the process for ballot access. |
| October 5 2023 | Cornel West abandoned his candidacy for the Green Party nomination and announced he would continue his presidential campaign as an independent candidate. |
| September 11 2023 | West hired Peter Daou as his campaign manager, who had previously worked on Marianne Williamson's campaign. |
| July 23 2023 | West addressed accusations of being a spoiler candidate during a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper. |
| July 14 2023 | West made a controversial statement on Twitter claiming NATO provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| June 14 2023 | West announced he would seek the Green Party's nomination in their primaries. |
| June 14 2023 | West decided to seek the Green Party nomination for the 2024 presidential election, focusing on issues such as Medicare for All, public housing, climate change, and military budget cuts. |
| June 5 2023 | Cornel West announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election under the People's Party. |
| July 1 2021 | Cornel West rejoined the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan, taking on the prestigious Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair. |
| June 30 2021 | Cornel West submitted his resignation letter to Harvard. |
| March 8 2021 | Cornel West announced that he would leave Harvard and return to the Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. |
| February 2021 | Reports surfaced that Cornel West was denied consideration for tenure at Harvard, prompting him to threaten to leave the university. |
| 2020 | Cornel West expressed his support for Bernie Sanders during Sanders' second presidential campaign. |
| September 2020 | Listed by Prospect magazine as the fourth-greatest thinker for the COVID-19 era. |
| September 2020 | Cornel West was listed by Prospect magazine as the fourth-greatest thinker for the COVID-19 era. |
| 2019 | Cornel West was featured as himself in the documentary 'No Safe Spaces'. |
| 2018 | He made a guest appearance on Terence Blanchard's album 'Live'. |
| August 2017 | West was part of an interfaith, multiracial clergy group that counter-protested at the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. |
| 2016 | Following Donald Trump's election victory, West wrote an op-ed for The Guardian analyzing the election, critiquing how white working- and middle-class voters supported a candidate who alienated multiple minority groups. |
| 2016 | After Sanders exited the presidential race, West endorsed Jill Stein, criticizing Hillary Clinton as a 'neoliberal disaster'. |
| 2016 | Cornel West published 'The Radical King'. |
| 2016 | Cornel West appeared as himself in the documentary 'Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary'. |
| November 2016 | Cornel West returned to Harvard, taking a nontenured position as Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy after leaving Union Theological Seminary. His appointment was jointly at the Harvard Divinity School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Department of African and African American Studies. |
| 2015 | Cornel West expressed support for Bernie Sanders during a CNN Tonight interview, arguing that Sanders' wealth redistribution plans would benefit the African-American community. |
| 2015 | West contributed to Terence Blanchard's album 'Breathless'. |
| 2015 | Cornel West was featured in the documentary '#Bars4Justice'. |
| August 24 2015 | West tweeted his endorsement of Bernie Sanders, praising him as a long-distance runner with integrity in the struggle for justice. |
| August 10 2015 | Cornel West was arrested while demonstrating outside a courthouse in St. Louis on the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's death. |
| 2014 | Gave an interview criticizing Obama, calling him a 'counterfeit' and defining his presidency as 'a Wall Street presidency, a drone presidency, a national security presidency'. |
| 2014 | West co-initiated the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, a project associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party USA. |
| 2014 | Cornel West released 'Black Prophetic Fire'. |
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