Charles E. Cobb Jr.

**Charles E. "Charlie" Cobb Jr.** (an haife shi a ranar 23 ga Yuni, 1943) Ya kasance ɗan jarida ne, farfesa, kuma tsohon mai fafutuka tare da Kwamitin Gudanar da Dalibai (SNCC). Tare da tsoffin sojoji da yawa na SNCC, Cobb ya kafa kuma ya gudanar da kantin sayar da littattafai na Afirka da Amurka Drum da Spear a Washington, DC, daga 1968 zuwa 1974. A halin yanzu shi babban mai sharhi ne a allAfrica.com kuma farfesa ne mai ziyara a Jami'ar Brown.

## Tarihin rayuwa
An haifi Cobb a Washington, DC, a 1943 kuma ya girma a Springfield, Massachusetts. Iyayensa sun kasance masu aiki a siyasa. Kakansa ya kafa wata al'umma ta noma a Mississippi da ake kira New Africa a shekara ta 1888. A cikin fall of 1961 Cobb ya fara karatu a Jami'ar Howard inda ya zama mai aiki a cikin Civil Rights Movement . Bayan bin da karantawa game da zanga-zangar zama, Cobb ya shiga cikin zanga-zambe game da wariyar launin fata a Annapolis, Maryland, inda aka kama shi a cikin wani aikin rashin biyayya na farar hula. A shekara ta 1962 ya yi tafiya zuwa Mississippi Delta kuma ya zama sakataren filin kwamitin kula da dalibai (SNCC). Ayyukansa da gwagwarmayarsa a matsayin sakataren filin SNCC ya kasance har zuwa 1967. Yafi aiki a yankunan Washington, Issaquena, da Sunflower a Mississippi. Yayinda yake a Mississippi, Cobb ya rubuta wani tsari ga SNCC don kafa Makarantun 'Yanci wanda aka gabatar a watan Disamba na shekara ta 1963. Cobb ya rubuta cewa ya kamata a kafa makarantun 'yanci "don cika wani nau'i na ilimi da kirkira a rayuwar matasa Negro Mississippians, da kuma sa su bayyana nasu sha'awa, buƙatu, da tambayoyi... "  A cikin 1967 Cobb ya ziyarci Vietnam tare da Julius Lester tare da taimakon Kotun Laifukan Yakin Bertrand Russell. Bayan dawowa, shi da sauran tsoffin soji na SNCC sun kafa kantin sayar da littattafai na Drum da Spear a Washington, DC, wanda ya zama babban kantin sayarwar littattafai a kasar da ke ƙwarewa a littattafai ga da kuma game da baƙar fata. Ya kuma taimaka wajen kafa Cibiyar Ilimi ta Baƙi a Washington, DC. Daga baya ya yi tafiya a wasu sassan Afirka, gami da Tanzania, inda ya zauna a 1970 da 1971.

A shekara ta 1974 Cobb ya fara aikin jarida lokacin da ya fara bayar da rahoto ga WHUR Radio a Washington, DC. Daga baya, a shekara ta 1976, Cobb ya fara aiki a Rediyo Jama'a na Kasa a matsayin mai ba da rahoto game da harkokin kasashen waje, yana aiki a kan hanyar sadarwar Afirka. Cobb ya taimaka wajen kafa shirin farko na NPR game da al'amuran Afirka. Bayan barin Rediyon Jama'a na Kasa, Cobb ya yi aiki a matsayin wakilin shirin PBS Frontline daga 1983 har zuwa 1985. A shekara ta 1985 ya zama marubucin baƙar fata na farko na National Geographic Magazine . Ya kasance memba na ma'aikatan edita na National Geographic daga 1985 zuwa 1997. A halin yanzu Cobb babban mai sharhi ne a allAfrica.com.

## Sanarwa
Cobb ya kasance memba ne na kafa kungiyar National Association of Black Journalists kuma an shigar da shi cikin Hall of Fame a shekara ta 2008.  Cobb a halin yanzu farfesa ne mai ziyara na nazarin Afirka a Jami'ar Brown, inda yake koyar da darasi mai suna "The Organizing Tradition of the Southern Civil Rights Movement".

## Littattafan da aka zaɓa

* *Matsakaicin Radical: Haƙƙin Jama'a daga Mississippi zuwa Aikin Algebra*,  tare da Bob Musa ( Beacon Press, 2001), 
* *Babu Nasara Mai Sauƙi: 'Yancin Afirka da Masu fafutukar Amurka Sama da Rabin Ƙarni, 1950-2000*,  wanda aka gyara tare da William Minter da Gail Hovey (Labaran Duniya na Afirka, 2007), 
* *A Hanyar Zuwa 'Yanci: Jagoran Yawon shakatawa na Hanyar 'Yancin Bil'adama*  ( Littattafan Algonquin, 2008), 
* *Wannan Abubuwan Rashin Tashin Hankali Za Ya Sake Kashe Ku: Yadda Bindigogi Ya Yiwuwar Ƙungiyoyin 'Yancin Bil'adama* ( Littattafai na asali, 2014, Duke University Press, 2015 pb), 

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