Professor William Jelani Cobb

William Jelani Cobb, PhD , is an Assistant Professor of History at Spelman College, as well as a critic, essayist and fiction writer whose writings on politics, the African Diaspora and contemporary African American culture have appeared in a number of national outlets. His column "Past Imperfect" appears regularly on AOL BlackVoices. He is editor of The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader , which was a Notable Book of the Year by Black Issues Book Review . His writing has appeared in the...See more

William Jelani Cobb, PhD , is an Assistant Professor of History at Spelman College, as well as a critic, essayist and fiction writer whose writings on politics, the African Diaspora and contemporary African American culture have appeared in a number of national outlets. His column "Past Imperfect" appears regularly on AOL BlackVoices. He is editor of The Essential Harold Cruse: A Reader , which was a Notable Book of the Year by Black Issues Book Review . His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Essence, Emerge , the Progressive , the Washington City Paper, One Magazine , and Alternet.org. See less