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GUEST: Cornel West, author of Race Matters, and Democracy Matters, professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University

Cornel West is one of the US’s most gifted, provocative, and important public intellectuals. He is a professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University and formerly taught at Harvard University. He is best known for his two books, Race Matters, and more recently Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism which we featured on Uprising a few years ago. Cornel West has won numerous awards, including the American Book Award, and has received more than 20 honorary degrees. Now he unveils his newest project, an album of hip hop music collaborating with such musical greats like Prince, KRS1, M1, Talib Kweli and others. The album is called “Never Forget: A Journey of Revelations and it is the brainchild of Black Men Who Mean Business, a group effort by Cornel West, his brother Clifton West, and Mike Dailey. I spoke last Friday afternoon with Cornel West when he stopped by the KPFK studios during his CD tour. We’ll hear several snippets of music from the CD, Never Forget during this interview.

Never Forget is put out by Hidden Beach Media and will be officially released in June 2007. Snippets of the songs can be heard at: http://www.hiddenbeachmedia.com/index.php?option=com_artist&Itemid=35&id=43