Jelani Cobb
Biography
William Jelani Cobb is an American writer, author and educator. The Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, Cobb was previously an associate professor of history and director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, from 2012 to 2016.
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Acting History
2025
Heightened Scrutiny as Self
2024What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates as Self - Dean and Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
2024One Person, One Vote? as Self
2022Lies, Politics and Democracy as Self - Reporter
2022Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union as Self
2021America After 9/11 as Himself
2021Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union as Self
2021Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America as Self
2020The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden as Self - Interviewee
2020Policing the Police 2020 as Self
2020East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story as Self
2020America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump as Self - Author, The Substance of Hope
2020McCarthy as Self
2019Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America as Self - Columbia University
201613th as Self
2016Marvel's Luke Cage as Jelani Cobb
2016Policing the Police
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2010White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books as Self
1996The Daily Show as Self
1983Frontline as Self