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| 2024 | Cornel West ran as an independent candidate in the United States presidential election. |
| August 2024 | Cornel West and his running mate Melina Abdullah were disqualified from the 2024 Michigan presidential election ballot. |
| February 1 2024 | West announced the establishment of the Justice For All Party (JFA), aimed at securing ballot access in select states including Florida, North Carolina, and Washington. |
| October 5 2023 | Cornel West abandoned his candidacy for the Green Party nomination and announced he would continue his presidential campaign as an independent candidate. |
| June 14 2023 | West decided to seek the Green Party nomination for the 2024 presidential election, focusing on issues such as Medicare for All, public housing, climate change, and military budget cuts. |
| June 5 2023 | Cornel West announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election under the People's Party. |
| July 1 2021 | Cornel West rejoined the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan, taking on the prestigious Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair. |
| June 30 2021 | Cornel West submitted his resignation letter to Harvard. |
| March 8 2021 | Cornel West announced that he would leave Harvard and return to the Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. |
| February 2021 | Reports surfaced that Cornel West was denied consideration for tenure at Harvard, prompting him to threaten to leave the university. |
| 2020 | Cornel West expressed his support for Bernie Sanders during Sanders' second presidential campaign. |
| September 2020 | Cornel West was listed by Prospect magazine as the fourth-greatest thinker for the COVID-19 era. |
| 2019 | Cornel West was featured as himself in the documentary 'No Safe Spaces'. |
| 2018 | He made a guest appearance on Terence Blanchard's album 'Live'. |
| August 2017 | West was part of an interfaith, multiracial clergy group that counter-protested at the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. |
| 2016 | After Sanders exited the presidential race, West endorsed Jill Stein, criticizing Hillary Clinton as a 'neoliberal disaster'. |
| 2016 | Cornel West appeared as himself in the documentary 'Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary'. |
| 2016 | Cornel West published 'The Radical King'. |
| November 2016 | Cornel West returned to Harvard, taking a nontenured position as Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy after leaving Union Theological Seminary. His appointment was jointly at the Harvard Divinity School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Department of African and African American Studies. |
| 2015 | Cornel West was featured in the documentary '#Bars4Justice'. |
| 2015 | West contributed to Terence Blanchard's album 'Breathless'. |
| August 24 2015 | West tweeted his endorsement of Bernie Sanders, praising him as a long-distance runner with integrity in the struggle for justice. |
| August 10 2015 | Cornel West was arrested while demonstrating outside a courthouse in St. Louis on the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's death. |
| 2014 | Cornel West released 'Black Prophetic Fire'. |
| 2014 | West co-initiated the Stop Mass Incarceration Network, a project associated with the Revolutionary Communist Party USA. |
| 2014 | West co-initiated the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and participated in a filmed discussion on 'Religion and Revolution' with RCP chairman Bob Avakian. |
| October 13 2014 | Cornel West was arrested while protesting against the shooting of Michael Brown during Ferguson October. |
| 2012 | Co-authored 'The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto' with Tavis Smiley and published 'Pro+Agonist: The Art of Opposition', continuing his social justice advocacy. |
| 2012 | Cornel West co-authored 'The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto' with Tavis Smiley. |
| 2012 | Cornel West left Princeton and returned to Union Theological Seminary, where he had begun his teaching career. |
| 2012 | Cornel West published 'Pro+Agonist: The Art of Opposition'. |
| 2012 | West was featured on Brother Ali's song 'Letter to My Countrymen', which appeared on the album Mourning in America and Dreaming in Color. |
| May 2012 | Cornel West guest-starred in the sixth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock in the episode titled 'What Will Happen to the Gang Next Year?'. |
| 2011 | Cornel West made a guest appearance on E-40's track 'Born in the Struggle' from the album 'Revenue Retrievin': Overtime Shift'. |
| 2011 | West appeared on Immortal Technique's song 'Sign of the Times', which was included in the album The Martyr. |
| 2011 | West participated in a 'Poverty Tour' with Tavis Smiley, highlighting the plight of impoverished individuals in the U.S. |
| 2011 | He appeared on Bootsy Collins' song 'Freedumb' from the album 'Tha Funk Capital of the World'. |
| 2011 | West called on the University of Arizona to divest from companies profiting from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. |
| October 21 2011 | West was arrested during an Occupy Wall Street protest in Harlem against the New York Police Department's stop and frisk policy. |
| October 16 2011 | West participated in the Occupy D.C. protests on the steps of the Supreme Court, opposing the Citizens United decision. |
| 2010 | Cornel West completed recording with the Cornel West Theory, a hip hop band that he endorsed. |
| 2010 | Completed recording with the Cornel West Theory, a hip hop band that was personally endorsed by West. |
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