{"id":280,"date":"2015-12-11T15:51:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T20:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/?page_id=280"},"modified":"2024-04-22T11:46:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T15:46:52","slug":"mlk-day-2016-keynote-speaker-william-jelani-cobb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/mlk\/past-observances\/mlk-day-2016-keynote-speaker-william-jelani-cobb\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK Day 2016 keynote speaker: William Jelani Cobb"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. William Jelani Cobb will give the King Day keynote address at Bates on Jan. 18, 2016. (Peter Morenus\/University of Connecticut)<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. William Jelani Cobb is an associate professor of history and the director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut. He specializes in post-Civil War African American history, 20th-century American politics, and the history of the Cold War.<\/p>\n

A staff writer at The New Yorker<\/em>, Cobb is the author of\u00a0The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress<\/em>\u00a0(Bloomsbury, 2010) and To The Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic<\/em>\u00a0(New York University Press, 2007), which was a finalist for the National Award for Arts Writing.<\/p>\n

Cobb\u2019s forthcoming book is titled Antidote to Revolution: African American Anticommunism and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1931\u20131957<\/em>. His writing has appeared in the Daily Beast,<\/em> Washington Post<\/em>, Essence<\/em>, Vibe<\/em>, The Progressive<\/em>, and TheRoot.com<\/em>, as well as The New Yorker<\/em><\/em>.<\/p>\n

He has contributed to several anthologies including In Defense of Mumia<\/em> (Writers & Readers, 1996),\u00a0Mending the World<\/em> (Basic Civitas Books, 2002) and Beats, Rhymes and Life<\/em> (Three Rivers Press, 2007). He has been a featured commentator on MSNBC, National Public Radio, CNN, Al-Jazeera, CBS News, and other national broadcast outlets.<\/p>\n

Cobb has received fellowships from the Fulbright and Ford Foundations.<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Queens, N.Y., he was educated at Jamaica High School, Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Rutgers University, where he received a doctorate in American history in May 2003.<\/p>\n

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