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Author Ta-Nehisi Coates told lawmakers at a House committee hearing that the debate over reparations is “a dilemma of inheritance.”
Ta-Nahesi Coates, a mild-mannered, even shy writer for The Atlantic, has become a celebrity intellectual as his books about race have become bestsellers.
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the presidency of Barack Obama, the role of race in American politics, and his new book, “We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy.”
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.
‘We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy’ author Ta-Nehisi Coates has his own definition of ‘whiteness’ and it has nothing to do with one’s race.
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In her Peabody-award winning public radio show and podcast, On Being, Krista Tippett provides a space for deep and meaningful conversations with profound thinkers of our time.
Eddie Glaude, Jr. joins to discuss his new biography on the late, great American writer James Baldwin and the lessons his thoughts on race still hold for America in the age of Trump. Aired on 7/06/2020.
From a 1960 Canadian television interview, broadcaster Nathan Cohen talks to author James Baldwin about race relations and the black experience in the United States.