Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
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.
Year | Movie | Role |
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2025 | Heightened Scrutiny | Self |
2024 | One Person, One Vote? | Self |
2022 | Preserving Democracy: Pursuing a More Perfect Union | Self |
2022 | Lies, Politics and Democracy | Self - Reporter |
2021 | Fight the Power: The Movements That Changed America | Self |
2020 | Policing the Police 2020 | Self |
2020 | East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story | Self |
2020 | The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden | Self - Interviewee |
2020 | McCarthy | Self |
2019 | Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America | Self - Columbia University |
2016 | 13th | Self |
2016 | Policing the Police | |
2010 | White Scripts and Black Supermen: Black Masculinities in Comic Books | Self |
Year | TV Show | Role |
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2024 | What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates | Self - Dean and Professor of Journalism, Columbia Journalism School |
2021 | Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union | Self |
2020 | America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump | Self - Author, The Substance of Hope |
2016 | Marvel's Luke Cage | Jelani Cobb |
2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
1983 | Frontline | Self |