In his January/Febrary 2017 cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores President Barack Obama’s journey to the White House.
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My President Was Black – The Atlantic
A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next
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‘I Felt My Blackness Being Chipped Away Bit by Bit’
My colleague Ta-Nehisi spoke last night with French journalist Iris Deroeux about his time living in Paris and more broadly about race in France compared to the U.S.:
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‘Allowing America to Confront Its Tortured Racial Past’
[two_fifth padding=”0 35px 0 10px”]‘ALLOWING AMERICA TO CONFRONT ITS TORTURED RACIAL PAST’ BY Clare Foran PUB The Atlantic [/two_fifth][three_fifth_last padding=”0 0px 0 10px”][perfectpullquote align=”full” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=”16″]How the National Museum of African American History and Culture recounts black history in the United States[/perfectpullquote]The Smithsonian Institution museums that dot the National Mall in Washington, D.C. […]
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The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.
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My Mother, the Drug War and Me: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates and Forgiving my Own Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
For years, I blamed the destruction of our family on her. Coates’ newest Atlantic article opened my eyes—and heart.
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The Black Journalist and the Racial Mountain
It’s not what the wider world says about black writers that should concern them, so much as what they say about themselves.
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