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The Case for Reparations | The Atlantic (2014)
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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Bringing the World of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Briefly, to Stage | The New York Times
Mr. Coates and Ms. Forbes will reconvene in Harlem as she adapts and directs the world premiere stage adaptation of “Between the World and Me” at the Apollo Theater.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Takes On Another Superhero | Slate
Those of you who’ve never read a Captain America comic book or seen him in the Marvel movies would be forgiven for thinking of Captain America as an unblinking mascot for American nationalism. In fact, the best thing about the story of Captain America is the implicit irony.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Cornel West’s One-Sided War | The Atlantic
Coates says he is “mystified as anybody else” over West’s critique.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Deletes Twitter Account Amid Feud With Cornel West | The New York Times
Twitter feuds claimed another high-profile casualty on Tuesday when the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates deleted his account after sparring with the Harvard professor Cornel West.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle | Cornel West | The Guardian
The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: his view of black America is narrow and dangerously misleading.
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Is atheism the reason for Ta-Nehisi Coates’ pessimism on race relations? | The Guardian
In his latest book, Ta-Nehisi Coates, one of America’s leading public intellectuals, betrays an atheistic worldview devoid of redemption
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The Birthmark of Damnation: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Black Body – Viewpoint Magazine
In a widely replicated gesture, Coates locates the experience of racism in the body, in a racism that “dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth.”
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‘Better Is Good’: Obama on Reparations, Civil Rights, and the Art of the Possible
The second in a series of interviews between Ta-Nehisi Coates and the president
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