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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 21, 1969
Place of Birth
Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- William Jelani Cobb
Jelani Cobb
0.3 Popularity
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
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Self
Heightened Scrutiny
2025
5.0
Self - Dean and Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates
2024
5.0
Self
One Person, One Vote?
2024
7.0
Self - Reporter
Lies, Politics and Democracy
2022
4.0
Self
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
2022
0.0
Himself
America After 9/11
2021
5.3
Self
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021
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0.0
Self
Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America
2021
7.2
Self - Interviewee
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
2020
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Self
Policing the Police 2020
2020
Credits
Heightened Scrutiny
as Self
2025
8.0
What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates
as Self - Dean and Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
2024
5.0
One Person, One Vote?
as Self
2024
5.0
Lies, Politics and Democracy
as Self - Reporter
2022
7.0
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
as Self
2022
4.0
America After 9/11
as Himself
2021
0.0
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
as Self
2021
5.3
🎬
Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America
as Self
2021
0.0
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
as Self - Interviewee
2020
7.2
Policing the Police 2020
as Self
2020
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East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
as Self
2020
7.5
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
as Self - Author, The Substance of Hope
2020
0.0
McCarthy
as Self
2020
8.0
🎬
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
as Self - Columbia University
2019
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13th
as Self
2016
7.9
Marvel's Luke Cage
as Jelani Cobb
2016
6.9
Policing the Police
2016
0.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
🎬
White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books
as Self
2010
8.0
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Frontline
as Self
1983
7.3