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In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all ...
Oct 21, 2021 · The boy is Coates’s 15-year-old son, who — like Baldwin’s nephew — is trying to make sense of blatant racial injustice and come to grips with his place in a world that refuses to guarantee ...
Jun 5, 2020 · Ta-Nehisi Coates. I can’t believe I’m gonna say this, but I see hope. I see progress right now, at this moment. I had an interesting call on Saturday with my dad, who was born in 1946, grew up ...
Aug 17, 2015 · Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book is written in the form of a letter to his son, who is trying to make sense of blatant racial injustice and come to grips with his place in the world.
May 22, 2014 · Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle , We Were Eight Years in Power , The Water Dancer , and Between the World and Me ...
Sep 30, 1975 · Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, a finalist for the National Book Award.A MacArthur "Genius Grant" fellow, Coates has received the National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story "The Case for Reparations."
Jul 12, 2015 · Coates with his father on their Park Heights stoop. Photo: Courtesy of Ta-Nehisi Coates The first time Coates met the president, at an off-the-record White House conversation with liberal opinion ...
