Journalists and documentary filmmakers received awards at the 2023 Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in TV Political Journalism, hosted by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and …
99 viewsPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery argued that moments of progress in race matters in the U.S. are often met with acts of violence. He was interviewed by Columbia University Gra…
622 viewsColumbia University Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University presented their annual awards that ‘honor the best in American nonfiction writing.’ This …
217 viewsElena Cherney of the Wall Street Journal, Valerie Hopkins of the New York Times, David Rohde of the New Yorker, Gulnoza Said of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Max Seddon of the Fi…
322 viewsAuthors Jelani Cobb, Marlon Jones, Maaza Mengiste, and Khalil Gibran Muhammad talked about how their books speak to the experiences of Black people. The National Black Writers Conference spo…
239 viewsFormer Obama administration official and activist Will Jawando reflected on the Black men in his life who mentored him and offered his thoughts on how mentorship can help Black men shape the…
108 viewsNew Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb and editor David Remnick discussed the New Yorker's articles on race throughout its history. This virtual program was part of the 2021 Miami Book Fair.
284 viewsAuthors Annette Gordon-Reed, Elizabeth Hinton, and Jelani Cobb offered their thoughts on racial injustice in America. This virtual program was hosted by Liveright Publishing in New York City…
303 viewsJelani Cobb talked about his new PBS Frontline documentary, Policing the Police 2020.
1,139 viewsThe House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress held a hearing on how technology can improve engagement with constituents. Witnesses included Congressional Management Foundation …
1,586 views2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the forced migration of Africans to the Virginia Colony in 1619. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History hosted their 93rd annu…
911 viewsStacey Abrams, the minority leader in Georgia’s House of Representatives and her state’s 2016 Democratic gubernatorial candidate, spoke about minority voting rights, voter suppression, and p…
997 viewsYale philosophy Professor Jason Stanley discussed how democracies can become vulnerable to fascism. He was joined in conversation by author Timothy Snyder and Jelani Cobb of the New Yorker.
3,681 viewsThe Ford Foundation hosted a conference at the Charles Wright Museum of African-American History in Detroit on the state of race relations and the media, with a focus on the 1968 Kerner Comm…
457 viewsProfessor Mike Wallace talked about his book Greater Gotham, in which he provided a history of New York City from 1898 to 1919.
795 viewsPanelists talked about free speech. Panelists included Jelani Cobb, author and New Yorker staff writer; Michelle Goldberg, author and Slate columnist; and Suzanne Nossel, executive director …
1,301 viewsPanelists talked about the effects of race, ethnicity, and religion on policies such as affirmative action and immigration. This forum was part of a series of discussions on the state of…
1,085 viewsScholars and activists talked about civil and human rights. It was the first in a series of conversations around the nation on rights and justice hosted by the National Archvies. “Civil R…
1,736 viewsJohn Cummings talked about the Whitney Plantation, a Louisiana plantation dating back to the late 1750s, which Cummings bought and turned into a museum devoted to telling the story of slaver…
2,197 viewsHistorians talked about the history of race relations in Ferguson, Missouri, and methods for teaching about race and protest. They also discussed the historical relationship between racial c…
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