Published July 13. 2021 6:25PM
Timothy Bella, The Washington Post
Cornel West, considered one of the most prominent Black philosophers and progressive activists in the country, announced Monday that he has resigned from his position at Harvard University's Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass., saying the institution is in a state of "decline and decay" and "spiritual rot."
In a resignation letter dated June 30 and posted to Twitter, West suggested that discrimination at the university drove him to leave the Divinity School. The 68-year-old scholar said in March that he was abandoning his quest for tenure at Harvard to return to the Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he first taught more than four decades earlier.