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William Jelani Cobb
William Jelani Cobb (born September 22, 1967) is an American writer,〔 author and educator, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute for African American Studies at University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut.
==Life==
William Jelani Cobb was born in Queens, New York, on September 22, 1967, the youngest of four children. Literacy and education were valued highly in the Cobb household. Both of Cobb's parents had migrated from the South, where they did not have access to high-quality schools. As a result, they were determined to give reading and learning important places in their family life. Cobb counted being taught to write at an early age by his father, Willie Lee Cobb—an electrician with a third-grade education—among his earliest memories. On his website, Cobb described his father's "huge hand engulfing mine as he showed me how to scrawl the alphabet." Cobb has been writing ever since.
Cobb was educated at Jamaica High School, New York City, Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Rutgers University, where in May 2003 he received a PhD in American history under the supervision of David Levering Lewis. He is a recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright and Ford Foundations. After graduating from Jamaica High School in Queens, Cobb enrolled at Howard University in Washington, D.C. . While studying at Howard, he found time to launch his professional writing career. His first legitimate outlet was a periodical called ''One'' that existed in Washington for about a year. ''One'' essentially gave Cobb, a writing novice, an open forum to write about whatever he wanted. As his journalistic skills developed, he began contributing to the ''Washington City Paper'', Washington's alternative weekly. His first national outlet was ''YSB Magazine'', part of the Black Entertainment Television, Inc. (BET) media empire, beginning in 1993. He also became more politically active during this time, and was involved with an organization, along with Ras Baraka, son of acclaimed poet Amiri Baraka, that took over Howard's administration building in 1989. It was around this time that Cobb, seeking to connect more with African tradition, decided to add "Jelani"—a Swahili word meaning "powerful"—to his name.
Cobb specializes in post-Civil War African-American history, 20th-century American politics, and the history of the Cold War. He served as a delegate and historian for the 5th Congressional District of Georgia at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. He resides in Atlanta, Georgia. He became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha in 2007.
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