Cornel West, the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at the Union Theological Seminary, prolific author and public intellectual, will discuss the seminal ideas in his 1993 book, Race Matters, and reflect on how the insights and reflections outlined in the book might have shifted and evolved over the last 30 years. The book covered topics such as affirmative action, Black-Jewish relations, Black leadership, political views on race issues, and much more. In a conversational format, the discussion will cover these and other relevant topics.

Briana Toole, assistant professor of philosophy, will facilitate the conversation.

This program is co-sponsored by the Presidential Initiative on Anti-Racism and the Black Experience in America and the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies.