03-02-17 Jelani Cobb Convocation

“The Half-Life of Freedom: Race and Justice in America Today” Join SUU as we continue to be a part of the elite Grace Adams Tanner Lecture in Human Values, Funded by the Tanner Trust for Utah Universities. The Tanner Center seeks to promote access to scholarly and scientific learning in all areas of human values which embrace moral, artistic, intellectual, and spiritual concepts. This year’s speaker is Jelani Cobb, who has been contributing to The New Yorker and newyorker.com since 2012, and became a staff writer in 2015. He writes frequently about race, politics, history, and culture. His most recent book is “The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.” He’s a professor of journalism at Columbia University. He won the 2015 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, for his columns on race, the police, and injustice.