In ‘The Message,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about the stories that fuel bigotry
Coates’s latest, a travelogue and a meditation on aesthetics and politics, is not dramatic enough to be as provocative as its ...
Review: In 'The Message,' Ta-Nehisi Coates seeks a kind of corrective redemption
The Message” recalls the spirit of Baldwin as Ta-Nehisi Coates places himself in foreign surroundings to gain a better ...
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Review: Ta-Nehisi Coates returns with three essays in 'The Message'
The final, and longest, essay encompasses a 10-day trip Coates takes to the Middle East. Like his journey to Senegal, it’s ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why Not Everyone Will Love His New Book
In “The Message,” Coates grapples with questions about which stories are told, and how, through his visits to Senegal, South Carolina and the West Bank. By Anderson Tepper Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ...
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Opinion: We have a choice, according to Ta-Nehisi Coates (and this stone mason)
Jean Stimmell, retired stone mason and psychotherapist, lives in Northwood and blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com. Waking up ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates brings his ‘Message’ to the Apollo
You wonder how author Ta-Nehisi Coates felt sitting on the stage of the Apollo Theater fielding questions from journalist Ayman Mohyeldin.
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In ‘The Message,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about the stories that fuel bigotry
On the one hand, there is Ta-Nehisi Coates the writer ... not feeding the hype machine. “The Message” is framed as a letter to Coates’s writing students at Howard University, and it is ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Returns to the Political Fray, Calling Out Injustice
THE MESSAGE, by Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates has returned to the fray. In 2017, after getting into a public dust-up with Cornel West, who accused him of being in thrall to a “neoliberal ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in 'The Message'
In his first nonfiction book in a decade, Coates reflects on what he learned while visiting three different places: Senegal, ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s troubled American conscience
Constance Grady is a senior correspondent on the Culture team for Vox, where since 2016 she has covered books, publishing, gender, celebrity analysis, and theater. With his new book The Message ...