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Janet Langhart Cohen

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Janet Langhart Cohen
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Janet Langhart Cohen Biography

Janet Langhart Cohen, president of Langhart Communications, is an Emmy-nominated journalist who began her television career on CBS in Chicago. During her 25-year career, Cohen has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC and BET; hosted ABCs Good Day in Boston; covered special assignments for Entertainment Tonight and produced several programs, including On Capitol Hill with Janet Langhart. As an overseas correspondent, she covered news in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Throughout her career, Cohen interviewed many major newsmakers and leaders of the 20th century. Among the prominent people she interviewed are President Bill Clinton (who acknowledged her work in his last State of the Union address), President Jimmy Carter, Margaret Thatcher, Rosa Parks, General Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Mel Gibson, Bill Cosby, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Denzel Washington, Dan Rather and Larry King.

Cohen also has worked as a columnist for The Boston Herald, U.S. News and World Report, and served as spokeswoman for Avon Cosmetics. She has been a judge for the White House Fellows Program and judged the Miss America pageant. Cohen is the wife of former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen. She was known as "First Lady of the Pentagon," due to her active and visible public role while her husband was in office. She inspired several initiatives aimed at quality of life for the Defense Departments military and civilian employeesincluding the Military Family Forum, the Pentagon Pops concert series, the Secretary of Defense Annual Holiday Tour (an entertainment revue). Cohen also created and hosted Special Assignment, a weekly television program that was broadcast globally over the Armed Forces Network from 1997 to 2001.

She wrote her first book, a memoir entitled, From Rage to Reason: My Life in Two Americas in 2004. In 2007, she and her husband co-wrote Love in Black and White, A Memoir about Race, Religion and Romance, about the bonds Langhart and Cohen share over similar life circumstances and backgrounds.

Most recently, Cohen has written a one-act playAnne and Emmettan imagined conversation between Nazi child victim, Anne Frank, and child victim Emmett Till, of the Jim Crow southern United States. She also is actively involved in the provision of higher education for underprivileged children.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/03/2024.

Janet Langhart Cohen Speaking Topics

  • Two Americas: Race Relations in the U.S.

    Race relations remain a topic of national debate that the country has collectively experienced during the current revolutionary presidential election. As our nation develops a more realistic, socio-cultural view of the world, it appears that 50 years from now there will be no single majority group in the United States. This evolution poses enormous opportunities for race relations and demands historical context and continued dialogue in order to directly impact our workforce, fiscal policies, and personal lives. Based on her two books regarding racial relations and her recently debuted play, Anne and Emmett, Langhart Cohen describes the two Americas she has experienced as a poor black girl growing up in the projects and as the wife of a powerful white Republican former secretary of defense. Along the way, she struggled against racial limitations. In this powerful presentation, Langhart Cohen shares:

    Her insights on current race relations

    Her faith in the nations ability to overcome its troubled racial history

    Perspective on the work that remains to be done to achieve true racial harmony and equity

  • A Conversation with the Cohens

    Janet Langhart, an African American, was raised by her Southern Baptist single mother in Indianapolis, Indiana. She progressed to a career as an accomplished journalist and correspondent. William Cohen, the son of a Jewish father and Protestant Irish mother, was born and raised in Bangor, Maine. He was eventually elected as the Republican senator from Maine. After meeting in 1974, Langhart and Cohen were married in the U.S. Capitol in 1996. Less than 50 years earlier, their marriage would have been illegal. As described in their book Love in Black and White: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Romance, the couple share with audiences their inspiring story of how two high-profile people of different racial and religious backgrounds have managed to overcome the long and troubled history of race and romance in the U.S. The Cohens discuss:

    Changes in attitude about race and interracial romance

    Racial and ethnic prejudices they have overcome individually and animosity they have occasionally faced as a couple

    Their views on current race relations.

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