by Cass Cliatt · Posted March 3, 2006; 04:15 p.m.

Princeton professors Cornel West and Eddie Glaude have teamed up with talk-show host Tavis Smiley to launch a national movement to take critical lessons of black history and American democracy out of the classroom and into people's homes, churches, book clubs and civic groups.

Professor West explains the purpose of the project as follows: “What we need is an examination of ourselves, our history and our present that raises the question, ‘What does it take for us to wake up?’ It’s time for everyday people to wake up and take power in the face of elite abusive power.”

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