# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Conversation with journalist and commentator Jelani Cobb
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a conversation with Pulitzer finalist, New Yorker staff writer, and acclaimed historian Jelani Cobb. 

Cobb is the author of Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025, an anthology of his recent work in The New Yorker, and a real-time portrait of our chaotic historical moment. 

The New York Times said, “¬In this collection of cultural criticism and reportage… Cobb offers a clear-eyed look at a turbulent decade of grass-roots social movements and the eventual right-wing backlash they inspired.”
 
Dean of the Columbia Journalism School, Cobb received the 2020 Peabody Award for the Frontline documentary, Whose Vote Counts?, and was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. 

7:30 p.m. Monday, March 2
Conversation / Q&A, moderated by Times Union Editor Casey Seiler
Page Hall, Downtown UAlbany Campus
135 Western Avenue
Albany NY 12203

Free and open to the public.
Books will be available for sale. 
A signing will follow the conversation.

Praise for Cobb's book:
"Trained first as a scholar and then as a journalist, Jelani Cobb is an essayist of rare erudition and integrity. From his first pieces about Trayvon Martin to his more recent explorations of race in the Trump era, he has been an exemplar of intellectual honesty, fierce self-questioning, and independence. Jelani Cobb is a truth-teller and this book is a gift." -- David Remnick, Editor of The New Yorker

"We live in a time when writers like Cobb are being targeted by the highest powers in this nation. Read this book to understand why." -- Ta-Nehisi Coates

“[Three or More Is a Riot] is a gripping anthology of Cobb’s writing. . . . Cobb is unfailingly modest about his insight and the power of his work to effect change. But that modesty belies the fact that Cobb’s writing makes us feel the injustice deeply. . . . It is foremost a stirring catalog of institutions lost, of other lives cut short. On the rare occasions when he inserts his personal experience into the journalism, the result is a rich and satisfying creation.”—The New York Times Book Review

More at https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/jelanicobb

Cosponsored by the Program in Journalism, Department of Communication at UAlbany, and The Justice & Multiculturalism in the 21st Century Project of the School of Criminal Justice.
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