Dr Cornel West is a United States philosopher, academic, activist, author and public intellectual.
Or, as he puts it, a blues man in the life of the mind, a jazz man in the world of ideas.
A civil rights activist, Dr West was recently arrested at the Ferguson, Missouri, protests over the police shooting of an unarmed black man -- one of several of late in the US.
He's now setting out on a lecture tour of Australia and he's told Ron Sutton about it.
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Cornel West talks to NITV's Awaken program about race, class, gender, religion and poetry with one of world's most influential men.
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