Misguided Flight
If he wants a place in history as a serious rights advocate, he needs to return to the U.S., says Jelani Cobb.
Jelani Cobb is a professor of Africana studies and history at Rutgers University and the author of The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress.
Slow Justice
he arrest in Trayvon Martin’s killing took 46 days—and only came after a public uproar, says Jelani Cobb.