AURN News with Ebony McMorris

From Princeton to the White House: Cornel West Rises to the Presidential Challenge

His promises include ending poverty, wars, mass incarceration, and the looming ecological disaster while guaranteeing healthcare, housing, quality education, and living wages for all Americans.

Ebony McMorris
June 5, 2023

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Notable scholar and lifelong activist Cornel West has just thrown his hat into the ring for the 2024 presidential election, rallying under the People’s Party banner.

West took to Twitter to announce his bold decision. His mission: to reintroduce America to its best self. His promises include ending poverty, wars, mass incarceration, and the looming ecological disaster while guaranteeing healthcare, housing, quality education, and living wages for all Americans. His message was clear: “The quest for truth and justice… the foundations of my life shall continue to steer this presidential journey.”

West, now an emeritus professor at Princeton and a Union Theological Seminary academic, affirmed his stance through an energetic video announcement.

I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself – fighting to end poverty, mass incarceration, ending wars and ecological collapse, guaranteeing housing, health care, education and living wages for… pic.twitter.com/u3NYGUbG1S
— Cornel West (@CornelWest) June 5, 2023

The People’s Party is an emerging independent party, striving to extend peace, healthcare, housing, and quality education for all.

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White House Correspondent Ebony McMorris is a native Washingtonian and University of South Carolina alumna. Her passion is mentoring young adults by teaching community empowerment and media education. She is an NAB member and board member of the Thurgood Marshall Center and was presented the President’s Lifetime Achievement Award for contributing more than 4,000 hours of community service under the Obama Administration.