On Part 1 of #WeNeedtoTalk-Faith & Politics, Malynda chats with Professor, Philosopher, Author and Activist Dr. Cornel West. The two chat about the intersection between faith and politics.

Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton.