Charles E. Cobb Jr. Biography
Charles E. Cobb Jr. is a journalist, lecturer, and former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Cobb began his media career in 1974, reporting for Washington, DC-based WHUR Radio. Cobb later began working as a foreign affairs reporter for National Public Radio in 1976, primarily covering Africa.
Charles E. Cobb Jr. Age
Cobb was born on 23 June 1943, in Washington, D.C., United States of America. He is 80 years old as of, June 2023.
Charles E. Cobb Jr. Education
Cobb studies at Howard University
Charles E. Cobb Jr. Family
Cobb was born in Washington, D.C., in 1943, and raised in Springfield, Massachusetts. His parents were political activists. In 1888, his great-grandfather founded New Africa, a farming town in Mississippi.
Charles E. Cobb Jr. Career
Cobb enrolled at Howard University in the fall of 1961, and he became involved in the Civil Rights Movement. Cobb was arrested for civil disobedience while protesting discrimination in Annapolis, Maryland. In 1962, he went to the Mississippi Delta and worked as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His labor and participation as SNCC field secretary continued until 1967. He worked mostly in Mississippi’s Washington, Issaquena, and Sunflower counties. Cobb offered a proposal to the SNCC to establish Freedom Schools in December 1963. Cobb argued that Freedom Schools should be established “to fill an intellectual and creative vacuum in the lives of young Negro Mississippians,”
Cobb and Julius Lester visited Vietnam in 1967, with the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal’s aid. After returning, he and fellow SNCC veterans founded Drum and Spear bookshop in Washington, DC, which briefly became the country’s largest bookshop specializing in books for and about black people. He also contributed to the establishment of the Center for Black Education in Washington, DC. Later, he traveled through sections of Africa, notably Tanzania, where he spent 1970 and 1971.Cobb began his media career in 1974, reporting for Washington, DC-based WHUR Radio.
Cobb and Julius Lester visited Vietnam in 1967, with the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal’s aid. After returning, he and fellow SNCC veterans founded Drum and Spear bookshop in Washington, DC, which briefly became the country’s largest bookshop specializing in books for and about black people. He also contributed to the establishment of the Center for Black Education in Washington, DC. Later, he traveled through sections of Africa, notably Tanzania, where he spent 1970 and 1971. Cobb began his media career in 1974, reporting for Washington, DC-based WHUR Radio. Cobb later began working as a foreign affairs reporter for National Public Radio in 1976, primarily covering Africa.
Cobb helped to launch NPR’s initial coverage of African affairs. Cobb left National Public Radio and served as a correspondent for the PBS show Frontline from 1983 to 1985. In 1985, he became National Geographic Magazine’s first black staff writer. From 1985 to 1997, he served on the editorial staff of National Geographic. Cobb is currently a senior analyst for allAfrica.com. Cobb was a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists and was elected into the organization’s Hall of Fame in 2008. Cobb is a visiting professor of Africana studies at Brown University, where he offers a course titled “The Organizing Tradition of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.”
Charles E. Cobb Jr. Nt Worth
Cobb has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.