Jelani Cobb

Jelani Cobb is a staff writer at The New Yorker and writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. His most recent book is The Essential Kerner Commission Report. He won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice. He is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Twitter: @jelani9

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