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Jelani Cobb

Jelani Cobb is known for acting, with popular credits including Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union, Lies, Politics and Democracy, White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books, Policing the Police 2020.

Born 21 Aug 1969 Queens, New York City, New York, USA

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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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Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union

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Lies, Politics and Democracy

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Policing the Police 2020

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13th

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East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story

movie

Policing the Police

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The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden

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One Person, One Vote?

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Heightened Scrutiny

movie

McCarthy

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America After 9/11

movie

Marvel's Luke Cage

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

The Daily Show

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2025 Heightened Scrutiny as Self movie 2024 What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates as Self - Dean and Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School tv 2024 One Person, One Vote? as Self movie 2022 Lies, Politics and Democracy as Self - Reporter movie 2022 Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union as Self movie 2021 America After 9/11 as Himself movie 2021 Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union as Self tv 2021 Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America as Self movie 2020 The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden as Self - Interviewee movie 2020 Policing the Police 2020 as Self movie 2020 East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story as Self movie 2020 America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump as Self - Author, The Substance of Hope tv 2020 McCarthy as Self movie 2019 Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America as Self - Columbia University movie 2016 13th as Self movie 2016 Marvel's Luke Cage as Jelani Cobb tv 2016 Policing the Police movie 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self tv 2010 White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books as Self movie 1996 The Daily Show as Self - Guest tv 1983 Frontline as Self tv

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Jelani Cobb is 56 years old, based on the birthday listed by TMDB.

What is Jelani Cobb famous for?

Jelani Cobb is known for credits including Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union, Lies, Politics and Democracy, White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books, Policing the Police 2020, 13th.

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