Wrap-up speaker Cornel West went so far as to compare him to Europeans(ph), and Thomas Hardy.

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With Keanu Reeves, Hugo Weaving, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Cornel West.

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He clashed with Cornel West, a well known black professor, over Mr West's commitment to academic research.

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And I'm going to bring Cornel West back in here.

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" The final audio comes from Dr. Cornel West, echoing the sentiments of Victor Hugo, that music "expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

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After the event, while reporters and some of the attendees gathered at the United House of Prayer across the street from the Apollo, Professor Cornel West -- one of the nation's foremost authorities on race relations -- and the Rev.

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