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Jelani Cobb is an author and Dean of the Columbia Journalism School. Queens native, Dean @ColumbiaJourn. Staff Writer @NewYorker. Left-hander, check my doc Policing the Police2020: https://t.co/OrlHpwJWU3

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Book Cover for: To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic, William Jelani Cobb

To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic

William Jelani Cobb
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I had this idea that I was going to write this book about the relationship between hip-hop and the blues…That is the relationship, the things that people were thinking about and talking about, and that the blues encapsulated: the blues as sociology and the blues as history.

Paperback, 2008

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Uncollected Letters of Abraham Lincoln: 1, Abraham Lincoln

Uncollected Letters of Abraham Lincoln: 1

Abraham Lincoln
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My colleague @kcarterjackson is one of my favorite conversation partners. Here we discuss the eternal American enigma that is Abraham Lincoln with New York 1’s @cherylwillsny1 https://t.co/ExzFgV1OzF

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Book Cover for: Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, Ruha Benjamin

Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin
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Happy to see this thoughtful, provocative book by @ruha9 and it’s equally gorgeous cover, has made its way to book shelves.

Paperback, 2024

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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