No shortcuts, no gimmicks. Just a rising star from PG County, Md. is ready to make his story known globally. 11 hours ago Ta-Nehisi Coates will be testifying before a House panel on the topic of ...

This year we selected writer Ta-Nehisi Coates as the top honoree on The Root 100, our annual list of influential and high-achieving African Americans. It was June when The Atlantic published his ...

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates has set off a firestorm of debate once again, this time about race and reparations. In an exhaustive and sweeping piece, “The Case for Reparations,” he skillfully ...

At Wednesday’s House hearing on reparations, Democratic witness Ta-Nehisi Coates, author and columnist who wrote a widely-referenced article for The Atlantic that is often credited for the renewed ...

* The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has chosen writer/blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates (pictured) to be among the 24 recipients of “genius” grants from the organization. “When I first got the ...

*For a huge part of 2 years, Ta-Nehisi Coates has been the most combative and visible supporter for the reparations in the political and social system. Coates even went on to call reparations as “the ...

Many of us would love to be taxed for the things we are solely and individually responsible for. But we are American citizens and thus bound to a collective enterprise that extends beyond our ...

The late Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, saw in Ta-Nehisi Coates a man who filled the intellectual void that had fallen after the death of James Baldwin. That he ...

Coates published a piece in The Atlantic yesterday arguing that, in his stated aversion to government reparations for African-Americans, “Sanders’s radicalism has failed in the ancient fight against ...

It’s rare that a letter to the editor is newsworthy, but that’s the case with a letter in The New Yorker about a review of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book, The Message, which repeats the oft-repeated claim ...