Jelani Cobb
Acting
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.
TV Shows(7)
What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates
Self - Dean and Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School
2024
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self
2021
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
Self - Author, The Substance of Hope
2020
Marvel's Luke Cage
Jelani Cobb
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self
2015
The Daily Show
Self - Guest
1996
Frontline
Self
1983
Movies(14)
Heightened Scrutiny
Self
2025
One Person, One Vote?
Self
2024
Lies, Politics and Democracy
Self - Reporter
2022
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
Self
2022
America After 9/11
Himself
2021
Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America
Self
2021
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
Self - Interviewee
2020
Policing the Police 2020
Self
2020
East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
Self
2020
McCarthy
Self
2020
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Self - Columbia University
2019
13th
Self
2016
Policing the Police
2016
White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books
Self
2010