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Jelani Cobb Lecture
Mar 22, 2023
07:30 PM - 08:30 PM
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU), Black Box Theater
125 North Madison Street, Iowa City, IA 52245
Against the backdrop of a pandemic that disproportionately affects Black people, and a renewed push for racial justice, historian and Peabody Award-winning journalist Jelani Cobb emerges as a clear voice in the fight for a better America. A PBS Frontline correspondent for two critically acclaimed documentaries—"Policing the Police" and "Whose Vote Counts"—Cobb explores the enormous complexities of race and inequality, while offering guidance and hope for the future. A longtime writer for The New Yorker, and editor of its recent anthology collection The Matter of Black Lives, Cobb’s work is described as having 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 fine writer.”
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