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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Calls for slavery reparations have returned with the publication of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “The Case for Reparations” in The Atlantic magazine (May 21). In making his argument, Coates goes through the ...

This year, he channeled his ideas into fiction with his debut novel The Water Dancer, in which Hiram Walker breaks free of bondage and works for the Underground Railroad in the fight for freedom—with ...