Cliopatria Welcomes William Jelani Cobb

Cliopatria is pleased to welcome William Jelani Cobb to our circle. A native of New York City, Professor Cobb did his undergraduate work at Howard University and his doctorate at Rutgers, with David Levering Lewis. He is now an Associate Professor of History at Spelman College in Atlanta.

Dr. Cobb is the author of To The Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic and editor of The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader and The Devil & Dave Chappelle and Other Essays. Currently, he is at work on two book manuscripts, In Our Lifetimes: Barack Obama and the New Black America and a monograph, Antidote to Revolution: African American Anticommunism and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1931-1957.

Dr. Cobb's articles and essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Essence, The Progressive, Ebony, at TheRoot.com and elsewhere. An occasional commentator on NPR, CNN, Al-Jazeera, CBS News, and other national broadcast outlets, he blogs at Creative Ink and American Exception. It's a pleasure to welcome him to Cliopatria.