Award-winning author Jelani Cobb to speak on campus

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Jelani Cobb, a writer for The New Yorker, author and educator, will speak from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday (Sept. 6) in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall. The event, presented by the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, is free and open to the public.

Cobb is the dean of Columbia University’s journalism school and the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism and director of the Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights.

His essays and opinions have been published in The Washington Post, The New Republic, Essence, Vibe, The Progressive and TheRoot.com. Cobb’s expansive resume also includes reporting for “Whose Vote Counts,” the Peabody Award-winning documentary series.  Cobb’s work addresses intersections of race, politics, history and American culture and is described as having the “rigor and depth of a professional historian with the alertness of a reporter, the passion of an engaged public intellectual and the literary flair of a fine writer.”  

He recently co-edited “The Matter of Black Lives,” a collection of The New Yorker’s most groundbreaking writing on Black history and culture in America, featuring the work of legendary writers such as James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.

Cobb is a graduate of Howard University and Rutgers University where he received his doctorate in American History.

More information about the event is available online.