In the latest course, West seeks to illuminate the significance of Black love in all its forms. West, a pioneering educator who died in April), and another on empathy with celebrities such as musician Pharrell Williams, professor and essayist Roxane Gay and novelist Walter Mosley. He has been teaching a MasterClass on philosophy (which he’s dedicated to his mother, Irene B. West, the Dietrich Bonhoeffer professor of philosophy at the Union Theological Seminary, has written 20 books, including contemporary classics such as “Race Matters.”
