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Ta-Nehisi Coates

December 2022

  • Surveillance footage of man in white van

    US man who pleaded guilty to hate crime ordered to write essays on racism

    Jarl Rockhill also required to read Ta-Nehisi Coates, as part of plea deal for plastering a racist sticker outside refugee non-profit

July 2022

  • Out of the ordinary … Wangechi Mutu’s video The End of Eating Everything at In the Black Fantastic exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London, until 18 September.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 21st-century fantasy novels

    In recent decades, the best world-building fiction has begun to shed its roots in European mythology in favour of new ways to challenge the limits of the real

April 2021

  • Panel from Captain America Volume 9 #28, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which shows Red Skull lecturing viewers on his ‘10 rules for life’

    Jordan Peterson ‘shocked’ by Captain America villain Red Skull espousing ‘10 rules for life’

    Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new comic sees Red Skull mobilising young men against ‘the feminist trap’ and other Petersonian targets

February 2020

  • Author Ta-Nehisi Coates At Harvard<br>CAMBRIDGE, MA - NOVEMBER 11: Author Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Institute of Politics moderated by Harvard Professor Bruce Western on November 11, 2015 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images,)

    The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – time traveller on the Underground Railroad

    Magical realism meets real life in the acclaimed journalist’s debut novel about American slaves escaping to the north

January 2020

  • The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Book of the day
    The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – a slave’s story

    This ambitious debut novel from the leading American thinker is set on a Virginia plantation

September 2019

  • Books of the century so far

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    Dazzling debut novels, searing polemics, the history of humanity and trailblazing memoirs ... Read our pick of the best books since 2000

July 2019

  • A small mural of Martin Luther King in the city’s Sandtown district in west Baltimore.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about Baltimore

    Anne Tyler is indelibly tied to the city, but authors as contrasting as Frederick Douglass and John Waters have shown some of its different faces

June 2019

  • Danny Glover,Ta-Nehisi<br>Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, left, and Actor Danny Glover, right, testify about reparation for the descendants of slaves during a hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    Cory Booker attacks Biden for 'civil' relationship with segregationist lawmakers – as it happened

    After the Senate majority leader dismissed the idea of reparations, Coates testified before Congress about ‘campaign of terror’ against black Americans

  • Slavery reparations bill debated in US House hearing – video highlights

    The actor Danny Glover, writers Ta-Nehisi Coates and Coleman Hughes as well as Senator Cory Booker were among the witness at a congressional hearing on the original sin of the US – the enslavement of 4 million Africans and their descendants – and what can be done to atone for it via reparations

    • Should America pay reparations for slavery? Ta-Nehisi Coates v Coleman Hughes

      Ta-Nehisi Coates and Coleman Hughes

    • ‘Stain of slavery’: Congress debates reparations to atone for America's original sin

    • Books that made me
      Harlan Coben: 'I cry a lot when I write – I need to cry more when I’m reading'

September 2018

  • Chelsea Manning (speaking via video call) with Peter Greste at Antidote at Sydney Opera House on 2 Septemb

    Chelsea Manning, Ronan Farrow and Ta-Nehisi Coates on terror and bravery at Antidote

    Alexandra Spring and Steph Harmon
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Festivals 2018
    Ta-Nehisi Coates might not feel hopeful but he makes us feel like change is coming

    Nayuka Gorrie

April 2018

  • Bill Cosby<br>FILE - In this April 12, 2018 file photo, Bill Cosby, center, leaves his sexual assault trial at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa. On Thursday, April 26, 2018, Cosby was convicted of drugging and molesting a woman in the first big celebrity trial of the #MeToo era, completing the spectacular late-life downfall of a comedian who broke racial barriers in Hollywood on his way to TV superstardom as America’s Dad. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, FIle)

    How Bill Cosby went from 'America's dad' to convicted sex offender

    Before his dramatic downfall, culminating in a guilty verdict, Cosby seemed to be at the peak of what had been an extraordinary public life

February 2018

  • “For two years I’ve lived in the world of Wakanda, writing the title Black Panther. I’ll continue working in that world. This summer, I’m entering a new one—the world of Captain America,” Coates wrote.

    Ta-Nehisi Coates to write Marvel's new Captain America comics

    The National Book Award winner will take charge of the next series for Marvel following on from his work on the latest Black Panther comics

December 2017

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates and Cornel West

    The panel
    Ta-Nehisi Coates v Cornel West: black academics and activists give their verdict

    Melvin Rogers, Patrisse Cullors, Carol Anderson, Shailja Patel
    One of the foremost black intellectuals in the US has deleted his Twitter account after a public row. Commentators Melvin Rogers, Patrisse Cullors, Carol Anderson and Shailja Patel discuss the impact on the debate and struggle for racial equality
  • Meet the Press - Season 68<br>MEET THE PRESS -- Pictured: (l-r) Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent for The Atlantic and author of “Between the World and Me” appears on “Meet the Press” in Washington, D.C., Sunday, July 5, 2015. (Photo by: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC NewsWire via Getty Images)

    Ta-Nehisi Coates quits Twitter after public row with Cornel West

    West called Coates ‘neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle’ in Guardian column that provoked furious debate in black and activist circles
  • ta-nehisi coates

    Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle

    Cornel West
    The disagreement between Coates and me is clear: his view of black America is narrow and dangerously misleading

November 2017

  • Malia, Michelle and Barack Obama

    Book of the week
    We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – on white supremacy

    Trump’s election was a case of erasing a black president with extreme prejudice, argues the hugely influential writer in this essay collection on race in the US
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