Join the Case Western Reserve University community for the 2022 Martin Luther King, Jr. Convocation Keynote Address Friday, January 14, 2022, at 1:00 p.m. EST. This year's keynote speaker is historian and Peabody Award-winning journalist Jelani Cobb, a staff writer at The New Yorker and the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at Columbia University.
Theme: The Half-Life of Freedom, Race, and Justice in America Today
About the Speaker:
Jelani Cobb is a PBS Frontline correspondent for two critically acclaimed documentaries -Policing the Police and Whose Vote Counts, Cobb's work explores the complexities of race and inequality, while offering guidance and hope for the future.
Cobb is the recipient of the Hillman Prize for opinion and analysis journalism, as well as the Walter Bernstein Award from the Writer's Guild of America for his investigative work on Policing the Police. He is the author of Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress, To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic and The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker.
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