{"id":72576,"date":"2016-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-honors-colloquium-welcomes-staff-writer-for-the-new-yorker\/"},"modified":"2016-11-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T00:00:00","slug":"uri-honors-colloquium-welcomes-staff-writer-for-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/uri-honors-colloquium-welcomes-staff-writer-for-the-new-yorker\/","title":{"rendered":"URI Honors Colloquium welcomes staff writer for The New Yorker"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 21, 2016 \u2014 Jelani Cobb, a staff writer at The New Yorker<\/em> and professor of journalism at Columbia University, will speak Tuesday, Nov. 29, at the URI Honors Colloquium, \u201cInequality and the American Dream.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cobb will address what is to be done about inequality at the free public lecture at 7 p.m. in Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road. It is the final lecture of this fall\u2019s Honors Colloquium series.<\/p>\n

Cobb has been contributing to The New Yorker<\/em> and newyorker.com<\/a> since 2012, and became a staff writer in 2015. He writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. His most recent book is \u201cThe Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.\u201d He won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice.<\/p>\n

Cobb joined the Columbia University School of Journalism in 2016. He was most recently an associate professor of History and director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut where he specialized in post-Civil War African American history, 20th century American politics and the history of the Cold War. Cobb is also a recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright and Ford Foundations.<\/p>\n

He is also the author of \u201cTo the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic.\u201d His articles and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The New Republic, Essence, Vibe, The Progressive,<\/em> and TheRoot.com. His collection \u201cThe Devil and Dave Chappelle and Other Essays\u201d was published in 2007. He has also contributed to a number of anthologies including \u201cIn Defense of Mumia,\u201d \u201cTestimony,\u201d \u201cMending the World\u201d and \u201cBeats, Rhymes and Life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Queens, N.Y., Cobb is a graduate of Howard University and Rutgers University where he received his doctorate in American History.<\/p>\n

Sponsors<\/p>\n

URI Office of the President \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Office of the Provost \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0The Mark and Donna Ross Honors Colloquium Humanities Endowment \u00a0\u2022 The Thomas Silvia and Shannon Chandley Honors Colloquium Endowment \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of Arts & Sciences \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of Pharmacy \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI John Hazen White Sr. Center for Ethics and Public Service \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Gender and Women\u2019s Studies Program \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Multicultural Student Services Center \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Theatre Department \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of Engineering \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of the Environment and Life Sciences \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of Health Sciences\u00a0 \u2022 \u00a0URI College of Business Administration \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI College of Nursing \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Division of Student Affairs \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Department of Communications and Marketing \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Department of Publications and Creative Services \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI ITS Instructional Technology and Media Services \u00a0\u2022 \u00a0URI Feinstein College of Education and Professional Studies \u00a0\u2022 URI Charles T. Schmidt, Jr. Labor Research Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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