William Jelani Cobb of the University of Connecticut will present a Black History Month lecture at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 26, in the Multipurpose Rooms of the Trabant University Center.

Feb. 26: African American experience

Connecticut's William Jelani Cobb to present Black History Month lecture

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12:31 p.m., Jan. 26, 2015--William Jelani Cobb, associate professor of history and director of the African Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut, will present a Black History Month lecture at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 26, in the Multipurpose Rooms of the Trabant University Center at the University of Delaware.

The lecture, titled “Struggles for Black Freedom in the 21st Century,” is hosted by UD’s Department of Black American Studies.

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Cobb is a leading scholar on the African American experience and a frequent contributor to news outlets providing comprehensive analysis of race, politics and culture.

The lecture at UD will include discussions of the continuing struggles for black freedom in the 21st century, police brutality and anti-black violence.

Cobb is the author of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress and the forthcoming Antidote to Revolution: African American Anticommunism and the Struggle for Civil Rights.

He has been a featured commentator on MSNBC, National Public Radio, CNN, Al-Jazeera, CBS News and a number of other national broadcast outlets.

Born and raised in Queens, New York, Cobb was educated at Jamaica High School, Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Rutgers University, where he received his doctorate in American history in May 2003.

Lecture sponsors include the College of Arts and Sciences, the Vice Provost for Diversity, University Museums, the Center for Black Culture, the Center for the Study of Diversity, the Department of History, the Department of Political Science and International Relations, the School of Public Policy and Administration and Nu Xi Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.

For a flyer about the event, click here.

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