Ta-Nehisi Coa
tes is running late. As a national c
orrespondent for The Atlantic and auth
or of the unique book,Between the World and Me, everyone,
and it seems,wants a piece of the 39-year-traditional Baltimore native. His book, wh
ich Toni Morrison christened “required reading and which the unique York Tim
es called a “profoundly moving account, or ” is a deepl
y personal examination of the ways in which American violence and racis
m have wreaked havoc on its black citizenry. “[T]he
question of how one should live within
a black body,within a country lost i
n the Dream,” Coates writes in the beginning port
ion of the book, and “is the question of my life.”Read more...
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