We speak with long-time educators and activists Jelani Cobb who is the Dean of Journalism at Columbia University and Lasana Hotep who does extensive work in the field of equity and diversity. They break down the history and the political landscape that has led to powerful right-wing forces pushing to eradicate Africana/ Black studies. Both scholars lay out the many ways that people are fighting back and ultimately winning.
Guests:
Jelani Cobb joined the Journalism School faculty in 2016 and became Dean in 2022. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2015. He received a Peabody Award for his 2020 PBS Frontline film Whose Vote Counts? and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary in 2018. He has also been a political analyst for MSNBC since 2019. journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/jelani-cobb
Lasana O. Hotep is an antiracist/antisexist educator, writer, and equity-advancing executive coach. He writes and speaks globally about educational equity, anti-Blackness, and racial justice within organizations and society-at-large. He has delivered transformative, multi-media presentations throughout the United States and abroad in Beijing, China, and Accra, Ghana.
coralearning.org/teachers/lasana-hotep/
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