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Ep. 42 We White Men Have a Lot to Learn With Oren Jay Sofer

The Road Home with Ethan Nichtern

Mindfulness and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer returns to the Road Home Podcast for a conversation with Ethan around what they as white men still have to learn about unseen bias and the roles they play in systemic injustice.

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We Were Eight Years in Power

“We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2024
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Full Opening Statement on Reparations at House Hearing

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates told lawmakers at a House committee hearing that the debate over reparations is “a dilemma of inheritance.”

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2019
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The Case for Reparations

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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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2014
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The Case for Reparations: An Intellectual Autopsy

Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2014
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Imagining a New America

Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends—and not spare the hard truths.

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Krista Tippett
2019
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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Criticized Mitch McConnell for Saying Slavery’s Effects Were in the Past

Just one day after Mitch McConnell spoke out against reparations for slavery, author Ta-Nehisi Coates passionately argued in favor of them at a House hearing on the topic.

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Jasmine Aguilera
2019
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Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Hopeful

The author of Between the World and Me on why this isn’t 1968, the Colin Kaepernick test, police abolition, nonviolence and the state, and more.

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Ezra Klein
2020
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Here’s What Ta-Nehisi Coates Told Congress About Reparations

The writer argued that African-Americans were exploited by nearly every American institution, before and after slavery ended.

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The New York Times
2019
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Fear and the Black Experience

The author of "Between the World and Me" began his book tour at historic Union Baptist Church in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2015
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates (a staffer for "The Atlantic" and author of a memoir, "The Beautiful Struggle") has become one of the most powerful writers today.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2015
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