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Jan 20, 2019 · Coates is the father of nine children; Kelly, Jonathan, Malik, Menelik, Ta-Nehisi, Darius, Jared, Damani and Kristance, including two additional adult children through marriage. W. Paul Coates was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on January 20, 2019.
His father, William Paul Coates (known by his middle name), was a Vietnam War veteran, former Black Panther, publisher, and librarian. His mother, Cheryl Lynn Coates (née Waters), was a teacher. Coates's father founded and ran Black Classic Press, a publishing company specializing in
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- Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, September 30, 1975 (age 48), Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
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Nov 23, 2013 · Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic and the author of the memoir “The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood.”
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Coates is the biological father of seven children by four different women. Two were wives and two were women in the Panthers. He is currently married and has two additional adult children through this marriage, bringing his total brood to nine. “My family is the family I created,” he says simply.
Jun 5, 2018 · In this post, blogger Joshua Clark Davis interviews activist Paul Coates–the father of author Ta-Nehisi Coates–on his life and early activism in Baltimore, Maryland. Paul Coates has lived many lives: Vietnam serviceman, United Airlines employee, Black Panther, and bookseller.
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Sep 21, 2015 · Coates, 39, a staff writer at the Atlantic magazine, conceived of his book as a letter to his teenage son Samori, just as 50 years ago, James Baldwin, the great poet-prophet of the civil rights...
Oct 8, 2017 · Interview. Ta-Nehisi Coates: the laureate of black lives. David Smith. Coates’s eloquent polemics on the black experience in America brought him fame and the admiration of Barack Obama. Here...
