The Beautiful Struggle
What does it take for a father to raise black boys in 1980's West Baltimore? Just ask Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood,...
View ArticleObama and Jackson
Ta-Nehisi Coates, journalist and author of The Beautiful Struggle, and John McWhorter, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discuss Jesse Jackson's comments that Barack Obama talks down to black...
View ArticleOn Fatherhood
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker staff writer, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, contributing editor to The Atlantic and author of The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, talk about...
View ArticleOn Fatherhood
Adam Gopnik, New Yorker staff writer, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, contributing editor to The Atlantic and author of The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, talk about...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates' take on the American dream
In Post-World War II America, when the American Dream was in full bloom, African-Americans were systematically written out of the narrative. Key programs of FDR’s New Deal consciously excluded...
View ArticleThe Cosby Show, 25 Years Later
This week marks 25 years since "The Cosby Show" first hit the airwaves. The show documented the rich and often hilarious family life of the Huxtables, an upper-middle-class black family living in...
View ArticleSen. Harry Reid Sets Off Race Discussion with 2008 Remarks
In "Game Change," a book about the 2008 presidential campaign being released today, the authors report that Nevada Sen. Harry Reid'sencouragement of Obama was unequivocal. He was wowed by Obama's...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates on Trayvon Martin
Ta-Nehisi Coates, a senior editor for The Atlantic, discusses the killing of a Florida teenager, and what it says about race, fear, and gun laws in America.
View ArticleReporting Fatigue
Atlantic editor Ta-Nehisi Coates has also been covering the Trayvon Martin story since very early on. However, he tells Brooke that he hesitated for a couple weeks before he started writing about the...
View ArticleRace and the Election
Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the role race is playing in this year’s election. His latest article in the September issue of The Atlantic is called “Fear of a Black President.” We’ll look at how race is...
View ArticleHow to Create an Engaging Comments Section
Creating an interesting comment space can take a lot of time and energy. In an interview from December, 2011, Bob speaks to The Atlantic senior editor and blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates about his approach to...
View ArticleCosby Coverage
Bob talks with The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates about a 2008 magazine piece he wrote about Bill Cosby that only mentioned the sexual assault accusations against Cosby at that time in passing. Earlier...
View Article2014: Confronting America's Uncomfortable Struggle With Race
From Michael Brown in Ferguson to Tamir Rice in Cleveland and Eric Garner in Staten Island, black and white America seemed very far apart in 2014. Ta-Nehisi Coates covered those stories as a national...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates: 'Fleeting References to 'Past Injustice' Will Not Do.'
The Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates critiques the rhetoric President Obama uses to frame his anti-poverty policies. He writes specifically about a panel on poverty where the president spoke earlier...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates' Letters to His Son
This segment originally aired live on July 20, 2015. An edited version was included in a best-of episode of The Brian Lehrer Show on September 7, 2015. The unedited audio can be found here.Ta-Nehisi...
View ArticleRevisiting the Moynihan Report
Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer for The Atlantic and the author of Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015), continues the conversation about reparations in revisiting “the Moynihan report,” saying...
View ArticleDavid Remnick Interviews Ta-Nehisi Coates
New Yorker editor David Remnick speaks with the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose celebrated book Between the World and Me explores the persistence of violence against black Americans. Written as a letter...
View ArticleTa-Nehisi Coates: We Should Have Seen Dallas Coming
Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer for The Atlantic and National Book Award winner for Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015), talks about race, policing and the Black Lives Matter movement in the...
View ArticleCounting the Deplorables
Last weekend at a fundraiser in New York City, Hillary Clinton said that half of Donald Trump's supporters are "irredeemables" who could be put in a "basket of deplorables" -- whereas the other half...
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