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The Jan. 6th attack on the nation’s Capitol and other acts of violence by white extremists prompt a much-needed examination of the history of white supremacy in the United States, its threat to both democracy and journalism, and challenges reporters face in covering this far-right extremism. The Ira A. Lipman Center at Columbia Journalism School is sponsoring “Race in America: Covering Far-Right Extremism,” a forum with historian Kathleen Belew and Journalism Professor Nina Berman, to be moderated by Lipman Center Director Jelani Cobb.
Kathleen Belew is author of “Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America” and an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago. She has taught the history of gender, violence, race, conservatism and identity at Stanford University, Northwestern University and Rutgers University as a postdoctoral fellow. Belew is co-editor of the forthcoming "A Field Guide to White Supremacy," which gathers resources for journalists covering racial violence, white nationalism, and other issues of inequality.
In “Bring the War Home,” she details how the white power movement in the United States was shaped by the Vietnam War.
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, and author of three books Purple Hearts-Back from Iraq, (2004), Homeland, (2008) and An Autobiography of Miss Wish (2017). She has documented right wing political figures and white nationalist movements since the early 1990’s. Along with colleagues at the Tow Center and Columbia’s School of Engineering, she recently developed the VizPol app designed to help journalists identify emerging political symbols. She is a professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Jelani Cobb: joined the Journalism School faculty in 2016. He has contributed to The New Yorker since 2012, and became a staff writer in 2015. He is the recipient of the 2015 Sidney Hillman Award for Opinion and Analysis writing and writes frequently about race, politics, history and culture.
