If being simultaneously pragmatic and inspirational about the state of democracy were an art, Jelani Cobb is the academic world’s Leonardo Da Vinci.
And like Da Vinci, Cobb’s art is cultivated by the intersection of his many trades. The Black Studies Fall Conference presented Cobb on Thursday night at Memorial Union as its 2022 keynote speaker. His address, “The Half-Life of Freedom, Race and Justice in America Today,” was a lesson that braided together Black history with current conversations about the trajectory of U.S. democracy.
Cobb is highly distinguished in the fields of education and journalism. He is the dean of the School of Journalism at Columbia University, still teaches a course on race and has worked as a staff writer for the New Yorker since 2015.
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