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.