Newswise — The New Yorker’s Jelani Cobb will discuss “Race, Citizenship, and the 2016 Election,” in a conversation with NYU historian Greg Grandin, on Thurs., Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m. at Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South [between Sullivan and Thompson streets]).
The event, the NYU Press Centennial Lecture, is free and open to the public. RSVP to [email protected]. For more information, please call 212.998.2575.
Cobb, a professor in Columbia University’s School of Journalism, has contributed to the New Yorker since 2012, becoming a staff writer in 2015. He is the author of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress as well as To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic, among other works. In 2015, Cobb received the Sidney Hillman Award for Opinion and Analysis Journalism.
Grandin is the author of Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman, The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, which received Columbia University’s Bancroft Prize, and Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City, among other works.
Doors open at 6 p.m. Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, M (W. 4th St.); 1 (Christopher St.).
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