Ta Nehisi Coates 
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
5-7-18
I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-22-17
Past Debates Echo in Split Between Cornel West and Ta-Nehisi Coates
There was no Twitter to fan the flames when W.E.B. Du Bois sparred with Booker T. Washington and Malcolm X argued with Martin Luther King Jr.
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SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
10-2-17
Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates acknowledges his debt to historians
"I really enjoy talking to historians, for the most part, because there’s so much — this is going to sound elitist but it’s true — there’s just a basic ignorance about facts in American history.”
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SOURCE: Huffington Post
3-7-17
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Harvard Should Pay Reparations For Slavery Ties
“I think it’s very important to actually say that word, to acknowledge that something was done in these institutions.”
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12-10-15
Ta-Nehisi Coates sides with Nell Painter: Racism is probably here to stay
Writers who commit themselves to only writing hopeful things are committing themselves to the ahistorical and the mythical.
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