Racial Healing: Solidarity, Racial Healing, and Narrative Change
Date: January 25, 2023 @ 10:00am PDT
This is an event organized by our Compassionate San Antionio partner, Alamo College as part of a Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation program. Dr. Cornel West will speak about the purpose and function of solidarity, racial healing, and social transformation. Through a moderated discussion, Dr. West will offer his wisdom and poignant commentary on our need to galvanize for rooting solidarity and collaboration in our daily practice of peace building and racial justice work.
Featured performers: Tāp Pīlam Coahuiltecan Nation, San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea Vocab Sanderson and performer Tanesha Payne, and Tehuan Band of Mission Indians.
Dr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects -- including but by no means limited to, the classics, philosophy, politics, cultural theory, literature, and music. He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of public in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
Dr. Cornel West is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought, and a wide range of subjects -- including but by no means limited to, the classics, philosophy, politics, cultural theory, literature, and music. He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of public in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
Dr. West is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.
