Jabari Asim

Jabari Asim
Asim at the 2022 Texas Book Festival.
Born	(1962-08-11) August 11, 1962 (age 62) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Occupation	Professor editor author poet playwright
Alma mater	Northwestern University
Genre	African American literature
Notable works	What Obama Means, The N Word

Jabari Asim (born August 11, 1962) is an American author, poet, playwright, and professor of writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.^[1] He is the former editor-in-chief of The Crisis magazine, a journal of politics, ideas and culture published by the NAACP and founded by historian and social activist W. E. B. Du Bois in 1910. In February 2019 he was named Emerson College's inaugural Elma Lewis '43 Distinguished Fellow in the Social Justice Center. In September 2022 he was named Emerson College Distinguished Professor of Multidisciplinary Letters.