The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority… It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority. Such a group may transform America’s greatest dilemma into her most glorious opportunity.
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.
News Items
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates dazzles during two years as an MLK Visiting Scholar
Coates discusses his love of teaching and why students should learn how to communicate their knowledge.
MIT welcomes six new MLK visiting professors and scholars
Appointments also extended for five current MLK visitors.