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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Visiting Scholar 2012-2014 National correspondent, The Atlantic
Through our scientific and technological genius, we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment, we must make of it a brotherhood.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Background

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.

Interests

Coates 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. In 2013, he won a National Magazine Award for his essay “Fear of a Black President”, published in the Atlantic. As an MLK Scholar, Coates taught one course per semester and gave public lectures at MIT.

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