Scholar and social activist Cornel West on Monday announced that he is running for president under the banner of the People’s Party, casting his minor-party bid as part of a quest for truth and justice. “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 all!” West said in a Twitter post in which he also...

Cornel West, the progressive activist and professor, announced a presidential campaign on Monday with the People’s Party, a third party led by a former campaign staff member for Senator Bernie Sanders. “I enter in the quest for truth, I enter in the quest for justice, and the presidency is just one vehicle to pursue that truth and justice — what I’ve been trying to do all of my life,” Dr. West said in a campaign video posted on Twitter. In the video, Dr. West said he had decided to run...

Political activist and academic Cornel West announced on Monday that he is running for president as a third party candidate. “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 all,” West tweeted. I am running for truth and justice as a presidential candidate for the People’s Party to reintroduce America to the best of itself...