THREE OR MORE IS A RIOT Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025

Kevin R. Free portrays the dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism in a fine style as he delivers selections from Cobb's reporting, commentaries, and observations. Free's pace and tone give the man his due. As Cobb astutely navigates the period from 2012 to 2024, he explores the wider meaning of the killings of unarmed Black men and bears witness. Looking farther back, he describes his own experiences at Jamaica High School and Howard University. He leavens this audiobook with eulogies for world figure Nelson Mandela, as well as PBS journalist Gwen Ifill and actor-activist Ruby Dee. Throughout all the selections, Free gets Cobb's voice--by turns journalistic, reflective and concerned. [Published: JANUARY 2026]