. . . . . . . . . . . . . "Cornel Ronald West (born June 2, 1953) is an American philosopher, academic, activist, author, public intellectual, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. The son of a Baptist minister, West received his undergraduate education at Harvard University, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1973, and received a Ph.D at Princeton University in 1980, becoming the first African American to graduate from Princeton with a Ph.D in philosophy."@en . . . . . "1953Z"^^ . . . "American philosopher, scholar, public intellectual" . . "West, Cornel Ronald"@en . . . "1953-06-02Z"^^ . . .