The Matter of Black Lives, Jelani Cobb
The Matter of Black Lives, Jelani Cobb
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The Matter of Black Lives
Writing from The New Yorker

Author: Jelani Cobb, David Remnick

Narrator: JD Jackson, Adjoa Andoh, January LaVoy, Maggi-Meg Reed, Jane Copland, Kaleo Griffith

Unabridged: 30 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/28/2021

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Synopsis

A collection of The New Yorker‘s groundbreaking writing on race in America—including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more—with a foreword by Jelani CobbThis anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex portrait of Black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision and artistic inspiration. It reaches back across a century, with Rebecca West’s classic account of a 1947 lynching trial and James Baldwin’s “Letter from a Region in My Mind” (which later formed the basis of The Fire Next Time), and yet it also explores our current moment, from the classroom to the prison cell and the upheavals of what Jelani Cobb calls “the American Spring.” Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir, and criticism from writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Elizabeth Alexander, Hilton Als, Vinson Cunningham, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Malcolm Gladwell, Jamaica Kincaid, Kelefa Sanneh, Doreen St. Félix, and others, the collection offers startling insights about this country’s relationship with race. The Matter of Black Lives reveals the weight of a singular history, and challenges us to envision the future anew. 

Author Bio

A staff writer at the New Yorker, Jelani Cobb is the Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School. The recipient of fellowships from the Fullbright and Ford Foundations, he lives in New York.

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