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The Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights provides leadership by informing diversity, civil and human rights discourse.
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Lipman Center @lipmancenter.bsky.social · Nov 19
🚨 We are now accepting applications for the 2026 Lipman Center Fellowship in Civil and Human Rights Reporting.

⏰ The deadline is January 9, 2026. ⏰

See application details and past fellowship work here:
journalism.columbia.edu/ira-lipman-f...
The Ira A. Lipman Fellowship | Columbia Journalism School
The Ira A. Lipman Fellowship, The Ira A. Lipman Center For Journalism and Civil and Human Rights, Lipman Center, Civil rights, human rights, Ira A. Lipman, Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb, Initia...
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Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism?
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Why Doesn’t Trump Pay a Political Price for His Racism?
Immigration isn’t breaking our society. We are.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Child bride spared execution in Iran after blood money is paid
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Child bride spared execution in Iran after blood money is paid
Guardian story helped to draw attention to planned hanging of Goli Kouhkan over death of abusive husband
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
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Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Sudan's bloody civil war is worsening a major humanitarian crisis
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Sudan's bloody civil war is worsening a major humanitarian crisis
Aid delivery remains extremely difficult in violence-ridden areas, where clashes continue between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
www.nbcnews.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
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Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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🚨 We are now accepting applications for the 2026 Lipman Center Fellowship in Civil and Human Rights Reporting.

⏰ The deadline is January 9, 2026. ⏰

See application details and past fellowship work here:
journalism.columbia.edu/ira-lipman-f...
The Ira A. Lipman Fellowship | Columbia Journalism School
The Ira A. Lipman Fellowship, The Ira A. Lipman Center For Journalism and Civil and Human Rights, Lipman Center, Civil rights, human rights, Ira A. Lipman, Columbia Journalism Dean Jelani Cobb, Initia...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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U.S. WWII cemetery in the Netherlands removes displays about Black troops
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U.S. WWII cemetery in the Netherlands removes displays about Black troops
The Netherlands American Cemetery previously had two displays honoring Black American soldiers’ experiences in World War II.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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📚 On shelves: Dean Jelani Cobb's latest book, "Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025."

This "kaleidoscopic, real-time portrait of the turbulent past decade" is available now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779593...

@jelaniya.bsky.social | @oneworldbooks.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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It’s Not a Dog Whistle If Everyone Can Hear It
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It’s Not a Dog Whistle If Everyone Can Hear It
A week of ostentatious bigotry in American politics
www.theatlantic.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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The Right to Vote Is on Trial at the Supreme Court
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The Right to Vote Is on Trial at the Supreme Court
"We are on the verge of becoming a country where the right to vote exists only on paper," writes Tom Lopach.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Immigration Agents Have Held More Than 170 Americans Against Their Will, ProPublica Finds
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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(Self) Censorship of student journalism in the age of Trump

Wednesday, Oct 8
12-1 p.m.
October 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Crooked Cops, Enterprising Sheriffs and Uncaring DAs

A conversation with Lipman Center criminal justice grantees about investigating official misconduct.

Tuesday, September 30
12:15 - 1:45pm
September 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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An H-2A Visa Promised Her a Better Life. She Ended Up in a Nightmare.
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A Farmworkers Visa Promised Her a Better Life. It Was a Trap.
Sofi left behind her child in Mexico for the promise of providing him a better life. She ended up a victim of an operation that is alleged to have exploited the H-2A visa program — and the workers it ...
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September 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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🎓📰 Introducing CollegeWatch

CJS faculty and alumni have launched CollegeWatch, a weekly newsletter reporting on the challenges facing U.S. higher education. Each issue delivers in-depth reporting and analysis on a fast-moving story: journalism.columbia.edu/news/college...
September 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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🗽 Yesterday, Columbia Journalism School and @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social hosted “Zohran Mamdani With Errol Louis: A Conversation on Public Safety,” the first in a series of forums with 2025 New York City mayoral candidates.
September 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Killing the journalist will not kill the story. We stand in solidarity with journalists in Gaza risking their lives to tell the truth: www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 15 people, including journalists
Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza on Monday killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said.
www.reuters.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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New Trump rule to ban VA abortions for veterans even in cases of rape and incest
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New Trump rule to ban VA abortions for veterans even in cases of rape and incest
Trump administration to end nearly all abortions even though third of female veterans are sexual assault survivors
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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📰 Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza

In a new project between
@columjournreview.bsky.social and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism, CJS faculty and graduates explore urgent strategies for protecting journalists in Gaza: www.cjr.org/feature/urge...
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
Letters, condemnations, and Israeli court cases have failed to change the world’s deadliest place for journalists. We’ve cast out for a new approach.
www.cjr.org
August 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Who Are the Venezuelan Immigrants Trump Sent to CECOT?
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The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...
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July 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released is proof of how senseless their detentions were.
www.propublica.org/article/vene...
Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT
Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...
www.propublica.org
July 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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As democratic norms face mounting threats, how should journalism hold the line? Dean Jelani Cobb joins the NAHJ 2025 Conference and Expo to explore the press’s role amid disinformation and eroding trust.

👉 Register for the panel: bit.ly/4lEv2dV
July 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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🎬 Now Playing in NYC: Heightened Scrutiny. This powerful new documentary features Dean Jelani Cobb, Lydia Polgreen ’00 M.S., and Gina Chua ’88 M.S., and offers sharp insight into how media coverage shapes public perception of trans rights.
July 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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"The biggest mistake that some universities have made is to presume that the White House is operating in good faith. It is not," writes @columbiajourn Dean Jelani Cobb.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
A Tumultuous Spring Semester Finally Comes to a Close
The biggest mistake that some universities have made is to presume that the White House is operating in good faith. It is not.
www.newyorker.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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“Should you paint over all the monuments and the memorials that were created for George Floyd, the history still exists ... We will continue to tell the story as long as it needs to be told.”

-Dean Jelani Cobb on episode 416 of Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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Jelani Cobb – Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Jelani Cobb (The New Yorker) on the crisis at Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, and five years since the death of George Floyd.
talkeasypod.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM