Mark Sawyer: The Crisis of the African-American Intellectual: What’s to Be Learned From the Cornel West v. Melissa Harris-Perry Debate
Unlike W.E.B. DuBois and other black intellectuals of the past, black intellectuals are not leaders in the way we once might have claimed. This leaves people like Professors Melissa Harris-Perry and Cornel West in unique and often viciously conflicting positions.
Mark Sawyer: Governor Rick Perry: America Love It or Leave It?
So how is it that a candidate for the presidency of the United States can simultaneously proclaim allegiance to the very office and country he has hinted at leaving?
