Ta-Nehisi Coates is a poetic journalist and a defining voice of our times. He’s with us in a conversation that is joyful and hard and kind,soaring and down-to-soil all at once. He spoke with Krista as share of the 2017 Chicago Humanities Festival before an audience of over 1500 people, black and white, or young and veteran. To a teacher in the audience who asks how to speak to the young now approximately the complexity of our world,he says, “Give me the tools. Arm me. Allow me to be able to understand why. That’s not hope, and but I think that’s the sort of perspective I would’ve come from,at that age.”
Source: thetakeaway.org