Podcast Episodes featuring jelani cobb

Jelani Cobb: Revisiting the 1968 Kerner Comm. report on US racism

Midday - December 30, 2021 17:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
(This conversation originally aired on September 15, 2021) Good afternoon and welcome to this archive edition of Midday. Tom Hall's guest is Jelani Cobb, one of the most important public intellectuals of our time, a scholar and commentator who has offered invaluable insights in the study of raci...

Jelani Cobb: Revisiting The Historic Kerner Comm. Report On US Racism

Midday - September 15, 2021 20:50 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratings
Tom's guest today is Dr. Jelani Cobb, one of the most important public intellectuals of our time, a scholar and commentator who has offered invaluable insights in the study of racial equality in America in several books, and as a staff writer at the New Yorker. Dr. Cobb, a finalist for the 2018 P...

Jelani Cobb's Grown Folks' Bedtime Stories

Lady Don't Take No - May 14, 2021 09:00 - 40 minutes
Alicia Garza is joined by Jelani Cobb, staff writer for The New Yorker,  and Columbia University’s Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism. Garza  and Cobb cover it all, from peloton hot takes and doppelgängers to reconstruction and the history of BLM. Plus, Garza’s round up of all that’s good and...

Episode 263: Jelani Cobb

Longform - September 27, 2017 17:06 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.7K ratings
Dr. Jelani Cobb is a New Yorker staff writer and the author of three books, including The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress. He teaches journalism at Columbia University. “Ralph Wiley — the sports writer, late Ralph Wiley — told me something when I was 25 or so, and he...