William Barber Takes on Poverty and Race in the Age of Trump
Jelani Cobb profiles the Rev. Dr. William Barber, who has worked for the past three years to revive Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign.
Under Trump, A Hard Test for Howard University
For The New Yorker, historian and journalist Jelani Cobb dives deep into the history of Washington D.C.’s Howard University, one of the nation’s largest HBCU’s. Howard alumni include Thurgood Marshall, Kamala Harris, and Toni Morrison, and the school has played a large role in facilitating the social mobility of blacks in America since the Civil War. Cobb speaks at length to Wayne Frederick, the university’s current president, whose pragmatism during the Trump era has drawn ire from student activists. But similar tensions have arisen before.
The Matter of Black Lives
Examining the future of the Black Lives Matter movement.
What I Saw in Ferguson
Jelani Cobb on the situation in Ferguson, Missouri following the tragic death of Michael Brown.