Stories about "William Jelani Cobb"
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MLK Day keynote: Acts of racial progress can ‘sow seeds of regression’
Thursday, January 21, 2016 2:32 pm
The keynote gathering in Gomes Chapel offered soaring rhetoric by essayist and scholar Jelani Cobb, U.S. Sen. Angus King, and Bates President Clayton Spencer.
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Hour by hour, MLK Day pictures, quotes, readings, ideas, and gestures
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 12:53 pm
Here's how MLK Day 2016 looked: what was said and read, and what was acted, sung, and pondered.
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‘Mass Incarceration and Black Citizenship’ at issue for MLK Day 2016
Tuesday, January 12, 2016 1:50 pm
Nationally known commentator William Jelani Cobb gives the keynote address at Bates College's 2016 MLK Day observances.
Amandla! presents 'Unity' conference, dinner and dance
Wednesday, March 14, 2007 2:53 pm
Amandla!, the African American student organization at Bates College, presents its fifth annual Unity Conference, Generation C: Generation Consciousness, an exploration of politics, gender and culture, on Saturday, March 17.