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
Heightened Scrutiny
Self
8.0
2025
What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates
Self - Dean and Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School · (1 episode)
5.6
2024
One Person, One Vote?
Self
5.0
2024
Lies, Politics and Democracy
Self - Reporter
7.0
2022
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
Self
4.0
2022
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Self · (3 episodes)
5.8
2021
Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America
Self
0.0
2021
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
Self - Interviewee
7.2
2020
Policing the Police 2020
Self
0.0
2020
East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
Self
7.5
2020
Frontline: America's Great Divide
Self - Author, The Substance of Hope
8.2
2020
McCarthy
Self
8.0
2020
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
Self - Columbia University
0.0
2019
13th
Self
7.9
2016
Marvel's Luke Cage
Jelani Cobb · (1 episode)
6.9
2016
Policing the Police
0.0
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · (1 episode)
6.3
2015
White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books
Self
8.0
2010
The Daily Show
Self · (2 episodes)
6.4
1996
Frontline
Self · (2 episodes)
7.4
1983