Jelani Cobb: The Half-Life of Freedom, Race, and Justice in America Today
Location
University Center : 301
Date & Time
November 13, 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Description
The Department of Media and Communication Studies presents:
The Half-Life of Freedom, Race, and Justice in America Today
The Half-Life of Freedom, Race, and Justice in America Today
Jelani Cobb, Dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University and the Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism, will give a short talk followed by a panel discussion with Liz Patton, Associate Professor and Chair of Media and Communication Studies, and Ian Anson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Associate Director for the Institute of Politics,
Co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science, the Institute of Politics, the Department of English, the School of Public Policy, and the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.
Jelani Cobb joined the Columbia Journalism School faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film Whose Vote Counts? and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018. He has also been a political analyst for MSNBC since 2019.
He is the author of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress and To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic. He is the editor or co-editor of several volumes including The Matter of Black Lives, a collection of The New Yorker’s writings on race and The Essential Kerner Commission Report. He is producer or co-producer on a number of documentaries including Lincoln’s Dilemma, Obama: A More Perfect Union, Policing the Police and THE RIOT REPORT.
Dr. Cobb was educated at Jamaica High School in Queens, NY, Howard University, where he earned a B.A. in English, and Rutgers University, where he completed his MA and doctorate in American History in 2003. He is also a recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation and the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Journalism Project and the Board of Trustees of the New York Public Library. He received an Honorary Doctorate for the Advancement of Science and Art from Cooper Union in 2022, and an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Rutgers University in 2024. York College / CUNY and Teachers College have honored Dr. Cobb with medals.
Dr. Cobb was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2023.
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