by lindaoppenheim | Nov 17, 2022
The Newark Public Library, Prudential, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, and NJPAC are hosting the 2022 Phillip Roth Lecture, a conversation with two of the leading intellects of our times – Jelani Cobb and Nikole Hannah-Jones. Doors open: 6:00 PM • Program:...
by lindaoppenheim | Dec 4, 2018 | Article
The November 2019 issue of the Columbia Journalism Review has several articles of interest: “Missing the Story” by Jelani Cobb, about what is often lost when white journalists write stories that deal with race, “Newsrooms have failed spectacularly at...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 27, 2017 | Events, Speech
“Jelani Cobb, renowned staff writer at The New Yorker, will deliver a lecture entitled “The Half Life of Freedom: Race & Justice in America Today.” Cobb will provide an up-to-the-moment breakdown of the complex dynamics of race and justice in the United...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 7, 2015 | Events
At the annual meeting of the American Historical Association on Monday, January 5, during a session called “Understanding Ferguson: Race, Power, Protest and the Past,” a panel of historians said “they’ve got an obligation to help students and society at...