Jelani Cobb

Biography

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.

Known For

The Daily Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Frontline

Marvel's Luke Cage

What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates

13th

America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump

Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

All Movies (14)

• Heightened Scrutiny2025 · as Self
• One Person, One Vote?2024 · as Self
• Lies, Politics and Democracy2022 · as Self - Reporter
• Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union2022 · as Self
• America After 9/112021 · as Himself
• Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America2021 · as Self
• The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden2020 · as Self - Interviewee
• Policing the Police 20202020 · as Self
• East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story2020 · as Self
• McCarthy2020 · as Self
• Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America2019 · as Self - Columbia University
• 13th2016 · as Self
• Policing the Police2016
• White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books2010 · as Self

All TV Shows (7)

• What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates2024 · as Self - Dean and Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
• Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union2021 · as Self
• America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump2020 · as Self - Author, The Substance of Hope
• Marvel's Luke Cage2016 · as Jelani Cobb
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self
• The Daily Show1996 · as Self - Guest
• Frontline1983 · as Self