Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates ( ; born September 30, 1975) is an American author and journalist. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at ''

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'', where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and

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''. Coates has worked for ''

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'', '' Washington City Paper'', and ''

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''. He has contributed to ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Washington Monthly'', '' O'', and other publications. He has published three non-fiction books: ''The Beautiful Struggle'', '' Between the World and Me'', and '' We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy''. ''Between the World and Me'' won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has also written a ''

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'' series and a ''

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'' series for

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. His first novel, '' The Water Dancer'', was published in 2019. In 2015 he received a

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from the MacArthur Foundation.

Early life

Coates was born in

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. His father, William Paul Coates (known by his middle name), was a

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veteran, former

, publisher, and librarian. His mother, Cheryl Lynn Coates (née Waters), was a teacher. Coates' father founded and ran

Black Classic Press Black Classic Press (BCP) is an African-American book publishing company, founded by W. Paul Coates in 1978. Since then, BCP has published original titles by notable authors including Walter Mosley, John Henrik Clarke, E. Ethelbert Miller, Yosef ...

, a publishing company specializing in African-American titles. The Press grew out of a grassroots organization, the George Jackson Prison Movement (GJPM), which initially operated a Black bookstore called the Black Book. Later Black Classic Press was established with a table-top printing press in the basement of the Coates family home. Coates' father had seven children, five boys and two girls, by four women. Coates' father's first wife had three children, Coates' mother had two boys, and the other two women each had a child. The children were raised together in a close-knit family; most lived with their mothers and at times lived with their father. Coates has said that he lived with his father for the entirety of his upbringing, and that, in his family, the important overarching focus was on rearing children with values based on family, respect for elders and being a contribution to your community, an approach to family that was common in the community where he grew up. Coates grew up in the Mondawmin neighborhood of Baltimore during the crack epidemic. Coates' interest in literature was instilled at an early age when his mother, in response to bad behavior, would require him to write essays. His father's work with the Black Classic Press was a huge influence. Coates has said that he read many of the books his father published. Coates attended a number of Baltimore-area schools, including William H. Lemmel Middle School and

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, before graduating from Woodlawn High School. He attended

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, leaving after five years to start a career in journalism. He is the only child in his family without a college degree. In mid-2014, Coates attended an intensive program in French at

Middlebury College Middlebury College is a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1800 by Congregationalists, Middlebury was the first operating college or university in Vermont. The college currently enrolls 2,858 undergraduates from all ...

to prepare for a writing fellowship in

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, France.

Career

Journalism

Coates' first journalism job was as a reporter at '' The Washington City Paper''; his editor was David Carr. From 2000 to 2007, Coates worked as a journalist with various publications, including '' Philadelphia Weekly'', ''

'', and ''

''. His first article for ''

'', "This Is How We Lost to the White Man", about Bill Cosby and conservatism, started a new, more successful and stable phase of his career. The article led to an appointment with a regular column for ''The Atlantic'', a blog that was popular, influential, and had a high level of community engagement. Coates became a senior editor at ''The Atlantic'', for which he wrote feature articles as well as maintaining his blog. Topics covered by the blog included politics, history, race, culture as well as sports, and music. His writings on race, such as his September 2012 ''The Atlantic'' cover piece "Fear of a Black President" and his June 2014 feature " The Case for Reparations", have been especially praised, and won his blog a place on the Best Blogs of 2011 list by ''Time'' magazine and the 2012 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism from The Sidney Hillman Foundation. His blog has been praised for its engaging comments section, which Coates curates and moderates heavily so that "the jerks are invited to leave ndthe grown-ups to stay and chime in." In discussing ''The Atlantic'' article on "The Case for Reparations", Coates said he had worked on it for almost two years. He had read

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professor

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's book, ''Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America'', a history of

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that included a discussion of the grassroots organization the Contract Buyers League, of which Clyde Ross was one of the leaders. The focus of the article was not so much on reparations for slavery, but was instead a focus on the institutional racism of housing discrimination. Coates has worked as a guest columnist for ''

'', having turned down an offer from them to become a regular columnist. He has written for ''The Washington Post'', the '' Washington Monthly'', and ''O'' magazine. Coates left his position as a national correspondent for ''The Atlantic'' in July 2018 after a decade with the magazine. In a memo to the staff, the editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, said: "The last few years for him have been years of significant changes. He's told me that he would like to take some time to reflect on these changes, and to figure out the best path forward, both as a person and as a writer."

Author

''The Beautiful Struggle''

In 2008, Coates published ''The Beautiful Struggle'', a memoir about coming of age in West Baltimore and its effect on him. In the book, he discusses the influence of his father

W. Paul Coates William Paul Coates (born July 4, 1946) is an American publisher, printer and community activist. In 1978 he founded the Black Classic Press (BCP), an imprint devoted to publishing obscure and significant works by and about individuals of African ...

, a former Black Panther; the prevailing street crime of the era and its effects on his older brother; his own troubled experience attending Baltimore-area schools; and his eventual graduation and enrollment in Howard University. The lack of interpersonal skills and the complexity of Coates's father figure in the book sheds light on a world of absentee fathers. As Rich Benjamin states in a September 2016 article in ''The Guardian'', "Fatherhood is a vexed topic, particularly so for an author such as Coates" and continues with "''The Beautiful Struggle'' makes an enduring genre cliche—the father-son relationship—unexpected and new, as well as offering a vital insight into Coates's coming of age as a man and thinker."

''Between the World and Me''

Coates' second book, '' Between the World and Me'', was published in July 2015. The title is drawn from a Richard Wright poem of the same name about a black man discovering the site of a lynching and becoming incapacitated with fear, creating a barrier between himself and the world. Coates said that one of the origins of the book was the death of a college friend, Prince Carmen Jones Jr., who was shot by police in a case of mistaken identity. One of the themes of the book was what physically affected African-American lives, such as their bodies being enslaved, violence that came from slavery, and various forms of institutional racism. The book won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The book was ranked 7th on ''

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'''s list of the 100 best books of the 21st century.

''Black Panther''

In 2016, Coates was the writer of the sixth volume of

' ''

'' series, which teamed him with artist Brian Stelfreeze. Issue #1 went on sale April 6, 2016, and sold an estimated 253,259 physical copies, the best-selling comic for the month of April 2016. He also wrote a spinoff of ''Black Panther'' — '' Black Panther and the Crew'' — that ran for six issues before it was canceled. In 2018, Coates announced he would be writing a ninth volume of the ''

'' series, which would team him with artists Leinil Yu and Alex Ross.

''We Were Eight Years in Power''

Coates' collection of previously published essays on the Obama Era, '' We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy'', was announced by Random House, with a release date of October 3, 2017. Coates added essays written especially for the book bridging the gaps between the previously-published essays, as well as an introduction and an epilogue. The book's title is a quote from 19th-century African-American congressman

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of South Carolina, who asked why white Southerners hated African Americans after all the good they had done during the Reconstruction Era. Coates sees parallels between that earlier period and the Obama presidency.

''The Water Dancer''

Coates' first novel and work of fiction, ''The Water Dancer'', was published in 2019, and is a surrealist story set in the time of slavery, concerning a superhuman protagonist named Hiram Walker who possesses photographic memory, but who cannot remember his mother, and is able to transport people over far distances by using a power known as "conduction" which can fold the Earth like fabric and allows him to travel across large areas via waterways. The novel is also an Oprah's Book Club selection.

Teaching

Coates was the 2012–2014 MLK visiting scholar for writing at the

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. He joined the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism as its journalist-in-residence in late 2014. In 2017, Coates joined the faculty of

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's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute as a Distinguished Writer in Residence. In 2021, Coates joined the

faculty as writer-in-residence in the College of Arts and Sciences and holds the Sterling Brown chair in the English Department.

Projects

As of 2019, Coates was working on ''America in the King Years'', which is a television project with David Simon, Taylor Branch, and James McBride. The project is about Martin Luther King Jr. and the

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, based on one of the volumes of the books '' America in the King Years'' written by Branch, specifically ''At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–1968''. The project will be produced by Oprah Winfrey and air on HBO. Coates is working on a novel about an African American from Chicago who moves to Paris. Coates is set to adapt Rachel Aviv's 2014 ''

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'' article "Wrong Answer" into a full-length feature film of the same title, starring Michael B. Jordan with direction by Ryan Coogler. In February 2021, it was reported that Coates had been hired to write the script of a new '' Superman'' feature film from

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and Warner Bros. Pictures, with J. J. Abrams producing.

Views on race in the United States

In an interview with Ezra Klein, Coates outlined his analysis that the extent of white identity expression in the United States serves as a critical factor in threat perceptions of certain

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and their response to political paradigm shifts related to African Americans, such as the presidency of

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Personal life

Coates' first name, Ta-Nehisi, is derived from an Ancient Egyptian language name for

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. Nubia is a region along the Nile river in present-day northern Sudan and southern Egypt. As a child, Coates enjoyed comic books and ''

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''. Coates lived in

for a residency. In 2009, he lived in

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with his wife, Kenyatta Matthews, and son, Samori Maceo-Paul Coates. His son's name is a reference to three people: Samori Ture, a Mandé chief who fought French colonialism, black Cuban revolutionary Antonio Maceo Grajales, and Coates' father, who was known by his middle name of Paul. Coates met his wife when they were both students at

. He is an

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and a feminist. With his family, Coates moved to Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, New York, in 2001. They purchased a brownstone in Prospect Lefferts Gardens in 2016. In 2016, he was made a member of

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. In December 2017, Coates, who had a following of more than 1.25 million Twitter users, deactivated his Twitter account after a disagreement with philosopher and activist Cornel West over West's editorial in ''

'', titled "Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle". Coates caused some controversy in 2021 for his writing of ''Captain America'', volume 9 #28, in which he depicted the

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super-villain

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espousing the writings of the Canadian conservative clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson. Peterson stated that his work was used out of context in order to portray him negatively, describing it as an "attack" on himself.

Awards

* 2012: Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism * 2013:

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for Essays and Criticism for "Fear of a Black President" * 2014: George Polk Award for Commentary for "The Case for Reparations" * 2015: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Prize for Writing to Advance Social Justice for "The Case for Reparations" * 2015: American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship * 2015: National Book Award for Nonfiction for '' Between the World and Me'' * 2015:

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of the

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* 2015:

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for '' Between the World and Me'' * 2018: Dayton Literary Peace Prize in Nonfiction for ''We Were Eight Years in Power'' * 2018:

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for Best Limited Series, for '' Black Panther: World of Wakanda'' (with

Roxane Gay Roxane Gay (born October 15, 1974) is an American writer, professor, editor, and social commentator. Gay is the author of ''The New York Times'' best-selling essay collection ''Bad Feminist'' (2014), as well as the short story collection ''Ayiti ...

and Alitha E. Martinez) * 2020: British Fantasy Society Sydney J. Bounds Award for ''The Water Dancer''

Bibliography

Monographs

* ''Asphalt Sketches'' (poetry). Baltimore, Maryland: Sundiata Publications, 1990. . * ''The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood''. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008. * '' Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America''. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015. * '' We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy''. New York: One World, October 3, 2017.

Comics

* ''

'' vol. 6 #1–18, #166–172 (2016–2018) ** ''A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1'' (TPB, 144 pages, 2016, ) ** ''A Nation Under Our Feet Book 2'' (TPB, 144 pages, 2017, ) ** ''A Nation Under Our Feet Book 3'' (TPB, 144 pages, 2017, ) ** ''Avengers of the New World Book 1'' (TPB, 144 pages, 2017, ) ** ''Avengers of the New World Book 2'' (TPB, 136 pages, 2018, ) * ''Black Panther'' vol. 7, #1–25 (2018–2021) ** ''Intergalactic Empire Of Wakanda Part 1'' (TPB, 136 pages, 2019, ) ** ''Intergalactic Empire Of Wakanda Part 2'' (TPB, 136 pages, 2019, ) ** ''Intergalactic Empire Of Wakanda Part 3'' (TPB, 136 pages, 2020, ) ** ''Intergalactic Empire Of Wakanda Part 4'' (TPB, 176 pages, 2021, ) * ''Black Panther: World of Wakanda'' #1–6 (2016) (with

, Yona Harvey) ** Vol. 1: Dawn of the Midnight Angels (TPB, 144 pages, 2017, ) * ''Black Panther and the Crew'' #1–6 (2017) (with Yona Harvey) ** Vol. 1: We Are the Streets (TPB, 136 pages, 2017, ) * ''

'' vol. 9 #1–30 (2018–2021) ** ''Winter in America'' (TPB, 152 pages, 2019, ) ** ''Captain of Nothing'' (TPB, 144 pages, 2019, ) ** ''The Legend of Steve'' (TPB, 152 pages, 2020, ) ** ''All Die Young'' (TPB, 144 pages, 2021, ) * ''Free Comic Book Day Vol 2018 Avengers''

Selected articles

"Promises of an Unwed Father"
'' O: the Oprah Magazine''. January 2006.
"American Girl"
''

''. January/February 2009. Profile on

Michelle Obama Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as first lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is married t ...

. * "A Deeper Black". Early, Gerald Lyn, and Randall Kennedy. ''Best African American Essays, 2010''. New York: One World, Ballantine Books, 2010. pp. 15–22.
"Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?"
''The Atlantic''. The Civil War Issue. February 2012.
"Fear of a Black President"
Bennet, James. ''The Best American Magazine Writing 2013''. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. pp. 3–32.
"How Learning a Foreign Language Reignited My Imagination: Pardon my French"
''The Atlantic''. Vol. 311, Issue 5. June 2013. pp. 44–45
"The Case for Reparations"
''The Atlantic''. June 2014.
"There Is No Post-Racial America"
''The Atlantic''. July/August 2015.
"The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration"
''The Atlantic''. October 2015.
"My President Was Black"
''The Atlantic''. December 2016.
"The First White President"
''The Atlantic.'' October 2017.
"I'm Not Black, I'm Kanye"
''The Atlantic.'' May 2018.

Fiction

* '' The Water Dancer''. One World. September 24, 2019. .

Short fiction

"Conduction"
''

''. June 3, 2019.

Multimedia

* with Richard Harrington, Nelson George, and

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. ''Hip Hop''. Washington, D.C.: WAMU, American University, 1999. Audio conversation recorded January 29, 1999, at WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C. * with

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"Ta-Nehisi Coates"
''

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''. June 16, 2014. * with Ezra Klein
Vox Conversations: Should America offer reparations for slavery?
'' Vox''. July 18, 2014. * ''The Case for Reparations''. Middlebury, Vt.: Middlebury College, 2015. Video of lecture delivered at Middlebury College on March 4, 2015. * with Amy Goodman
"Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates Extended Interview on Being Black in America"
''

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''. July 22, 2015. * with

Jon Stewart Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host. He hosted '' The Daily Show'', a satirical news program on Comedy Central, from 1999 to 2015 and now hosts '' ...

. "Exclusive – Ta-Nehisi Coates Extended Interview
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an
"Pt. 2"
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''. July 23, 2015. * with Amy Goodman
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Joe Biden Shouldn’t Be President"
''Democracy Now!''. June 20, 2019.

References

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