Jelani Cobb
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About
Writer and teacher who became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 2015. He has been a history professor at the University of Connecticut and a journalism professor at Columbia University.
Before Fame
He graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens, New York before attending Howard University. He later earned a PhD in American history from Rutgers University.
Trivia
He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2018.
Family Life
He is the youngest of four siblings.
Associated With
He is the author of the book The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress (2010).
