Joi Chaney sits down with Jelani Cobb to Debunk Myths and Around Critical Race Theory
By Array Array , National Urban League
Published 11 PM EDT, Wed Sep 10, 2025

his week, Joi Chaney, our Executive Director and Senior Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, sits down with Jelani Cobb, historian and author who currently works as a staff writer at the New Yorker. Together, they debunk myths and misinformation around critical race theory, a term that, although coined in the 1980s, has regai