Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates
National Correspondent at The Atlantic
Visiting Scholar 2012-2014
Hosted by the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
Bio
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a National Correspondent at The Atlantic and author of The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (Spiegel & Grau, 2008).
He is a leading journalist and public intellectual whose work centers on politics, culture, and society from a point of view that recognizes that the United States is not yet a race-blind society. As an MLK Scholar, Coates taught one course per semester and gave public lectures at MIT.
Publications
The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir
Video
How should the U.S. address problems of violent policing? As a nation, we may be asking the police to do certain things that they shouldn't, says Ta-Nehisi Coates. The Atlantic correspondent offers his Brief But Spectacular take on the legacy of white supremacy in America today.
The Colbert Report (6/16/2014)
Interview with Bill Moyers (5/21/2014)
Facing the Truth: The Case for Reparations from BillMoyers.com