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							<title><![CDATA[How Universities Can Regain Public Legitimacy]]></title>
							<link>https://archive.is/uVKgP</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Cornel West</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The war between Washington and our nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s elite universities continues to heat up. From stripping federal funding from Harvard to targeting the accreditation status of Columbia, the Trump administration is delivering on the campaign it promised to carry out against universities...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Universities, a Time for Resolve - and Humility]]></title>
							<link>https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5265985-universities-crisis-academic-freedom/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Cornel West</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Facing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' federal funding suspensions and investigations, elite universities have arrived at a moment of crisis.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Enabled This War Against Black People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/21/trump-black-white-supremacy-buffalo-joe-biden</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Cornel West</author>
							<description><![CDATA[White supremacy is as American as apple pie, as the latest killings in Buffalo show, says the US philosopher and civil rights activist]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Drone Killing and the Laws of War]]></title>
							<link>https://www.newsweek.com/drone-killing-laws-war-opinion-1634273</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Cornel West</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Drone warfare is popular because it means that fewer American soldiers' lives are put at risk. However, it has resulted in many deaths of noncombatants.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Did CNN Fire a Pro-Palestinian Commentator?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/04/why-did-cnn-fire-a-pro-palestinian-commentator</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Cornel West</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No one gets closer to peace by silencing voices critical of a lethal status quo. We need a candid debate about the grim catastrophe unfolding in Israel]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America Is Spiritually Bankrupt]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/14/america-is-spiritually-bankrupt-we-must-fight-back-together</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Cornel West</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Pity the Sad Legacy of Barack Obama]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/09/barack-obama-legacy-presidency</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Cornel West</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Eight years ago the world was on the brink of a grand celebration: the inauguration of a brilliant and charismatic black president of the United States of America. Today we are on the edge of an abyss: the installation of a mendacious and cathartic white president who will replace him....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Sanders Is Better for Black People Than Clinton]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/02/bernie-sanders-african-americans-cornel-west-hillary-clinton-213627</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Cornel West</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The future of American democracy depends on our response to the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. And that legacy is not just about defending civil rights; it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s also about fighting to fix our rigged economy, which yields grotesque wealth inequality; our narcissistic culture, which...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why King Weeps From His Grave]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/opinion/martin-luther-king-jr-would-want-a-revolution-not-a-memorial.html?_r=1&amp;ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Cornel West</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial was to be dedicated on the National Mall on Sunday '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' exactly 56 years after the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi and 48 years after the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. (Because of Hurricane Irene, the ceremony has been...]]></description>
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