Magical realism meets real life in the acclaimed journalist’s debut novel about American slaves escaping to the north [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] A former national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine, Ta-Nehisi Coates is among the most revered and widely read intellectuals in the US. His bleak but scintillating book about race, We Were Eight Years in Power […]
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‘I Felt My Blackness Being Chipped Away Bit by Bit’
My colleague Ta-Nehisi spoke last night with French journalist Iris Deroeux about his time living in Paris and more broadly about race in France compared to the U.S.:
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My Mother, the Drug War and Me: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates and Forgiving my Own Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
For years, I blamed the destruction of our family on her. Coates’ newest Atlantic article opened my eyes—and heart.
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