He is also a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he has penned a remarkable series of articles about race, the police and injustice. Cobb has entitled his talk “The Half-Life of Freedom: Race and Justice in America Today.” The lecture will be followed by an audience Q&A and a reception.Ĭobb was awarded the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism and at the prize ceremony in 2015 journalist Hendrik Hertzberg described Cobb’s work as combining the “rigor and depth of a professional historian with the alertness of a reporter, the liberal passion of an engaged public intellectual and the literary flair of a writer.” Cobb teaches in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. It will take place as part of SUU Convocations in the Gilbert Great Hall of the Hunter Conference Center. On Thursday March 2nd, 2017, at 11:30 a.m., author, historian, and journalist Jelani Cobb will speak at Southern Utah University for the annual Grace A.
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