Jelani Cobb
Known for: Acting
Born: August 21, 1969
Place of birth: Queens, New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Filmography
16 movies · 9 TV shows, newest first
4.5
Heightened Scrutiny
2025
5.4
What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates
2024
5.0
One Person, One Vote?
2024
8.5
The Riot Report
2023
7.0
Lies, Politics and Democracy
2022
6.8
Lincoln's Dilemma
2022
4.0
Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union
2022
NR
America After 9/11
2021
5.3
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021NR
Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America
2021
6.8
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
2021
7.2
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
2020
NR
Policing the Police 2020
2020
7.0
East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
2020
NR
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
8.0
McCarthy
2020NR
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
7.8
13th
2016
6.9
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016
10.0
Policing the Police
2016
6.1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
20158.0
White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books
2010
6.4
The Daily Show
1996
6.5
Frontline
1983
4.6
Meet the Press
1947