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Ta-Nehisi Coates

April 12, 2024

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates[1] (/ˌtɑːnəˈhɑːsi/ TAH-nə-HAH-see;[2] born September 30, 1975)[3] is an American author, journalist, and activist. He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy.[4][5]

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Coates in 2015
Born
Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates

(1975-09-30) September 30, 1975 (age 48)
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
EducationHoward University
Occupations
  • Writer
  • journalist
SpouseKenyatta Matthews
Children2
Parent(s)Cheryl Lynn Coates (née Waters)
William Paul Coates
Awards
Websiteta-nehisicoates.com

Coates has worked for The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, and Time. He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, 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.[6] Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction.[7][8][9] He has also written a Black Panther series and a Captain America series for Marvel Comics.[10] His first novel, The Water Dancer, was published in 2019.

In 2015 he received a Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation.[11]

Early life edit

Coates was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, William Paul Coates (known by his middle name),[12] was a Vietnam War veteran, former Black Panther, publisher, and librarian. His mother, Cheryl Lynn Coates (née Waters), was a teacher.[13] Coates's father founded and ran Black Classic Press, 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.[2][14]

Coates's father had seven children, five boys and two girls, by four women. Coates's father's first wife had three children, Coates's 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,[2][15] 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.[2] Coates grew up in the Mondawmin neighborhood of Baltimore[15] during the crack epidemic.[2]

Coates's interest in literature was instilled at an early age when his mother, in response to bad behavior, would require him to write essays.[16] 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.[2]

External videos
  Panel discussion on "Crisis of the Black Male" at Howard University, featuring Coates while a Howard student, October 12, 1995, C-SPAN

Coates attended a number of Baltimore-area schools, including William H. Lemmel Middle School and the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, before graduating from Woodlawn High School.[17][18] He attended Howard University, leaving after five years to start a career in journalism. He is the only child in his family without a college degree.[15][19] In mid-2014, Coates attended an intensive program in French at Middlebury College to prepare for a writing fellowship in Paris, France.[20]

Career edit

 
Coates at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival

Journalism edit

Coates's first journalism job was as a reporter at The Washington City Paper; his editor was David Carr.[21] From 2000 to 2007, Coates worked as a journalist with various publications, including Philadelphia Weekly, The Village Voice, and Time.[21] His first article for The Atlantic, "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.[22] 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.[21]

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"[21][23] and his June 2014 feature "The Case for Reparations",[24] have been especially praised,[25] and won his blog a place on the Best Blogs of 2011 list by Time magazine[26] and the 2012 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism from The Sidney Hillman Foundation.[21][27] His blog has been praised for its engaging comments section, which Coates curates and moderates heavily so that "the jerks are invited to leave [and] the grown-ups to stay and chime in."[28][29][30]

External videos
  Washington Journal interview with Coates on "The Case for Reparations", June 13, 2014, C-SPAN

In discussing The Atlantic article on "The Case for Reparations", Coates said he had worked on it for almost two years. He had read Rutgers University professor Beryl Satter's book, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America,[31] a history of redlining that included a discussion of the grassroots organization the Contract Buyers League, of which Clyde Ross was one of the leaders.[32][33] 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.[32]

Coates has worked as a guest columnist for The New York Times, having turned down an offer from them to become a regular columnist.[21] He has written for The Washington Post, the Washington Monthly, and O magazine.[21]

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."[4]

Author edit

The Beautiful Struggle edit

In 2008, Coates published The Beautiful Struggle, a memoir about coming of age in West Baltimore and its effect on him.[34] In the book, he discusses the influence of his father W. Paul Coates, a former Black Panther;[35] the prevailing street crime of the era and its effects on his older brother;[6] his own troubled experience attending Baltimore-area schools;[36] and his eventual graduation and enrollment in Howard University.[17] 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."[37]

Between the World and Me edit

Main article: Between the World and Me
External videos
  Presentation by Coates on Between the World and Me, October 15, 2015, C-SPAN

Coates's second book, Between the World and Me, was published in July 2015.[38] 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.[39] 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.[40][41] 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.[42][43][44] The book won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.[45][46] The book was ranked 7th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century.[47]

Black Panther edit

In 2016, Coates was the writer of the sixth volume of Marvel Comics' Black Panther series, which teamed him with artist Brian Stelfreeze.[10] 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.[48] He also wrote a spinoff of Black Panther—Black Panther and the Crew—that ran for six issues[49] before it was canceled.[50] In 2018, Coates announced he would be writing a ninth volume of the Captain America series, which would team him with artists Leinil Yu and Alex Ross.[51]

We Were Eight Years in Power edit

Main article: We Were Eight Years in Power
External videos
  Presentation by Coates on We Were Eight Years in Power, October 9, 2017, C-SPAN

Coates's 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.[52] 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 Thomas E. Miller 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.[53]

The Water Dancer edit

Main article: The Water Dancer

Coates's first novel and work of fiction, The Water Dancer, was published in 2019. It is a surrealist story set in the time of slavery and centers around a superhuman protagonist named Hiram Walker who possesses photographic memory but who cannot remember his mother. Walker is also able to transport people over far distances by using a power known as "conduction," which involves folding the Earth like fabric and allows him to travel across large areas via waterways.[54] The novel is also an Oprah's Book Club selection.[55]

Teaching edit

Coates was the 2012–2014 MLK visiting scholar for writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[21][56] He joined the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism as its journalist-in-residence in late 2014.[57] In 2017, Coates joined the faculty of New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute as a Distinguished Writer in Residence.[58] In 2021, Coates joined the Howard University faculty as writer-in-residence in the College of Arts and Sciences and holds the Sterling Brown chair in the English Department.[59]

Projects edit

In 2015–16, Coates was awarded a visiting fellowship at the American Library in Paris during which he worked on an unpublished novel about an African American from Chicago who moves to Paris.[60]

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.[61][62] The project is about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, 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.[63] The project will be produced by Oprah Winfrey and air on HBO.[64]

Coates is set to adapt Rachel Aviv's 2014 The New Yorker article "Wrong Answer" into a full-length feature film of the same title, starring Michael B. Jordan with direction by Ryan Coogler.[65]

In February 2021, it was reported that Coates had been hired to write the script of a new Superman feature film from DC Films and Warner Bros. Pictures, with J. J. Abrams producing.[66][67]

Views on race in the United States edit

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 European Americans and their response to political paradigm shifts related to African Americans, such as the presidency of Barack Obama.[68]

Personal life edit

Ta-Nehisi in hieroglyphs
[69]
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Coates's first name, Ta-Nehisi, is derived from an Ancient Egyptian language name for Nubia.[42] Nubia is a region along the Nile river in present-day northern Sudan and southern Egypt.[15][70]

As a child, Coates enjoyed comic books and Dungeons & Dragons.[15][71]

In 2009, Coates lived in Harlem[2] with his wife, Kenyatta Matthews, and son, Samori Maceo-Paul Coates.[21][72][73] 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's father, who was known by his middle name of Paul.[74] Coates met his wife when they were both students at Howard University.[74] He is an atheist and a feminist.[75][76][77] With his family, Coates moved to Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn, New York, in 2001.[78] The family purchased a brownstone in Prospect Lefferts Gardens in 2016, although they did not move into the brownstone due to media attention that accompanied the purchase.[79] In 2016, he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Oregon State University.[80]

Controversy edit

In December 2017, Coates, who had more than 1.25 million Twitter followers,[81] deactivated his Twitter account after a disagreement with philosopher and activist Cornel West over West's editorial in The Guardian, titled "Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle".[82][83]

Coates caused some controversy in 2021 for his writing of Captain America, volume 9 #28, in which he depicted the Nazi super-villain Red Skull 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.[84][85]

Awards edit

Bibliography edit

Monographs edit

  • Asphalt Sketches (poetry). Baltimore, Maryland: Sundiata Publications, 1990. OCLC 171149459.
  • The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2008. ISBN 978-0-385-52684-5 OCLC 638193286
  • Between the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2015. ISBN 978-0-812-99354-7 OCLC 912045191
  • We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. New York: One World, October 3, 2017. ISBN 978-0-399-59056-6

Comics edit

Selected articles edit

  • "Promises of an Unwed Father". O: the Oprah Magazine. January 2006.
  • "American Girl". The Atlantic. January/February 2009. Profile on Michelle Obama.
  • "A Deeper Black". Early, Gerald Lyn, and Randall Kennedy. Best African American Essays, 2010. New York: One World, Ballantine Books, 2010. pp. 15–22. ISBN 978-0-553-80692-2 OCLC 320187212
  • "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. ISBN 978-0-231-53706-3 OCLC 861785469
  • "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 edit

Short fiction edit

Multimedia edit

  • with Richard Harrington, Nelson George, and Kojo Nnamdi. Hip Hop. Washington, D.C.: WAMU, American University, 1999. OCLC 426123467 Audio conversation recorded January 29, 1999, at WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C.
  • with Stephen Colbert. "Ta-Nehisi Coates". The Colbert Report. 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. OCLC 904962550 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". Democracy Now!. July 22, 2015.
  • with Jon Stewart. "Exclusive – Ta-Nehisi Coates Extended Interview" "Pt. 1" and "Pt. 2". The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. July 23, 2015.
  • with Amy Goodman. Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Joe Biden Shouldn’t Be President". Democracy Now!. June 20, 2019.

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nehisi, coates, nehisi, paul, coates, ɑː, ɑː, born, september, 1975, american, author, journalist, activist, gained, wide, readership, during, time, national, correspondent, atlantic, where, wrote, about, cultural, social, political, issues, particularly, rega. Ta Nehisi Paul Coates 1 ˌ t ɑː n e ˈ h ɑː s i TAH ne HAH see 2 born September 30 1975 3 is an American author journalist and activist He gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic where he wrote about cultural social and political issues particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy 4 5 Ta Nehisi CoatesCoates in 2015BornTa Nehisi Paul Coates 1975 09 30 September 30 1975 age 48 Baltimore Maryland U S EducationHoward UniversityOccupationsWriter journalistSpouseKenyatta MatthewsChildren2Parent s Cheryl Lynn Coates nee Waters William Paul CoatesAwards2014 George Polk Award for commentary2015 MacArthur Fellows Program2015 National Book Award for NonfictionWebsiteta nehisicoates wbr comCoates has worked for The Village Voice Washington City Paper and Time He has contributed to The New York Times Magazine The Washington Post 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 6 Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction 7 8 9 He has also written a Black Panther series and a Captain America series for Marvel Comics 10 His first novel The Water Dancer was published in 2019 In 2015 he received a Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation 11 Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Journalism 2 2 Author 2 2 1 The Beautiful Struggle 2 2 2 Between the World and Me 2 2 3 Black Panther 2 2 4 We Were Eight Years in Power 2 2 5 The Water Dancer 2 3 Teaching 2 4 Projects 3 Views on race in the United States 4 Personal life 5 Controversy 6 Awards 7 Bibliography 7 1 Monographs 7 2 Comics 7 3 Selected articles 7 4 Fiction 7 5 Short fiction 7 6 Multimedia 8 References 9 External linksEarly life editCoates was born in Baltimore Maryland His father William Paul Coates known by his middle name 12 was a Vietnam War veteran former Black Panther publisher and librarian His mother Cheryl Lynn Coates nee Waters was a teacher 13 Coates s father founded and ran Black Classic Press 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 2 14 Coates s father had seven children five boys and two girls by four women Coates s father s first wife had three children Coates s 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 2 15 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 2 Coates grew up in the Mondawmin neighborhood of Baltimore 15 during the crack epidemic 2 Coates s interest in literature was instilled at an early age when his mother in response to bad behavior would require him to write essays 16 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 2 External videos nbsp Panel discussion on Crisis of the Black Male at Howard University featuring Coates while a Howard student October 12 1995 C SPANCoates attended a number of Baltimore area schools including William H Lemmel Middle School and the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute before graduating from Woodlawn High School 17 18 He attended Howard University leaving after five years to start a career in journalism He is the only child in his family without a college degree 15 19 In mid 2014 Coates attended an intensive program in French at Middlebury College to prepare for a writing fellowship in Paris France 20 Career edit nbsp Coates at the 2010 Brooklyn Book FestivalJournalism edit Coates s first journalism job was as a reporter at The Washington City Paper his editor was David Carr 21 From 2000 to 2007 Coates worked as a journalist with various publications including Philadelphia Weekly The Village Voice and Time 21 His first article for The Atlantic 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 22 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 21 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 21 23 and his June 2014 feature The Case for Reparations 24 have been especially praised 25 and won his blog a place on the Best Blogs of 2011 list by Time magazine 26 and the 2012 Hillman Prize for Opinion amp Analysis Journalism from The Sidney Hillman Foundation 21 27 His blog has been praised for its engaging comments section which Coates curates and moderates heavily so that the jerks are invited to leave and the grown ups to stay and chime in 28 29 30 External videos nbsp Washington Journal interview with Coates on The Case for Reparations June 13 2014 C SPANIn discussing The Atlantic article on The Case for Reparations Coates said he had worked on it for almost two years He had read Rutgers University professor Beryl Satter s book Family Properties Race Real Estate and the Exploitation of Black Urban America 31 a history of redlining that included a discussion of the grassroots organization the Contract Buyers League of which Clyde Ross was one of the leaders 32 33 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 32 Coates has worked as a guest columnist for The New York Times having turned down an offer from them to become a regular columnist 21 He has written for The Washington Post the Washington Monthly and O magazine 21 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 4 Author edit The Beautiful Struggle edit In 2008 Coates published The Beautiful Struggle a memoir about coming of age in West Baltimore and its effect on him 34 In the book he discusses the influence of his father W Paul Coates a former Black Panther 35 the prevailing street crime of the era and its effects on his older brother 6 his own troubled experience attending Baltimore area schools 36 and his eventual graduation and enrollment in Howard University 17 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 37 Between the World and Me edit Main article Between the World and Me External videos nbsp Presentation by Coates on Between the World and Me October 15 2015 C SPANCoates s second book Between the World and Me was published in July 2015 38 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 39 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 40 41 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 42 43 44 The book won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non Fiction 45 46 The book was ranked 7th on The Guardian s list of the 100 best books of the 21st century 47 Black Panther edit In 2016 Coates was the writer of the sixth volume of Marvel Comics Black Panther series which teamed him with artist Brian Stelfreeze 10 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 48 He also wrote a spinoff of Black Panther Black Panther and the Crew that ran for six issues 49 before it was canceled 50 In 2018 Coates announced he would be writing a ninth volume of the Captain America series which would team him with artists Leinil Yu and Alex Ross 51 We Were Eight Years in Power edit Main article We Were Eight Years in Power External videos nbsp Presentation by Coates on We Were Eight Years in Power October 9 2017 C SPANCoates s 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 52 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 Thomas E Miller 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 53 The Water Dancer edit Main article The Water Dancer Coates s first novel and work of fiction The Water Dancer was published in 2019 It is a surrealist story set in the time of slavery and centers around a superhuman protagonist named Hiram Walker who possesses photographic memory but who cannot remember his mother Walker is also able to transport people over far distances by using a power known as conduction which involves folding the Earth like fabric and allows him to travel across large areas via waterways 54 The novel is also an Oprah s Book Club selection 55 Teaching edit Coates was the 2012 2014 MLK visiting scholar for writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 21 56 He joined the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism as its journalist in residence in late 2014 57 In 2017 Coates joined the faculty of New York University s Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute as a Distinguished Writer in Residence 58 In 2021 Coates joined the Howard University faculty as writer in residence in the College of Arts and Sciences and holds the Sterling Brown chair in the English Department 59 Projects edit In 2015 16 Coates was awarded a visiting fellowship at the American Library in Paris during which he worked on an unpublished novel about an African American from Chicago who moves to Paris 60 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 61 62 The project is about Martin Luther King Jr and the Civil Rights Movement 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 63 The project will be produced by Oprah Winfrey and air on HBO 64 Coates is set to adapt Rachel Aviv s 2014 The New Yorker article Wrong Answer into a full length feature film of the same title starring Michael B Jordan with direction by Ryan Coogler 65 In February 2021 it was reported that Coates had been hired to write the script of a new Superman feature film from DC Films and Warner Bros Pictures with J J Abrams producing 66 67 Views on race in the United States editIn 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 European Americans and their response to political paradigm shifts related to African Americans such as the presidency of Barack Obama 68 Personal life editTa Nehisi in hieroglyphs 69 t3 nḥsjCoates s first name Ta Nehisi is derived from an Ancient Egyptian language name for Nubia 42 Nubia is a region along the Nile river in present day northern Sudan and southern Egypt 15 70 As a child Coates enjoyed comic books and Dungeons amp Dragons 15 71 In 2009 Coates lived in Harlem 2 with his wife Kenyatta Matthews and son Samori Maceo Paul Coates 21 72 73 His son s name is a reference to three people Samori Ture a Mande chief who fought French colonialism black Cuban revolutionary Antonio Maceo Grajales and Coates s father who was known by his middle name of Paul 74 Coates met his wife when they were both students at Howard University 74 He is an atheist and a feminist 75 76 77 With his family Coates moved to Prospect Lefferts Gardens Brooklyn New York in 2001 78 The family purchased a brownstone in Prospect Lefferts Gardens in 2016 although they did not move into the brownstone due to media attention that accompanied the purchase 79 In 2016 he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Oregon State University 80 Controversy editIn December 2017 Coates who had more than 1 25 million Twitter followers 81 deactivated his Twitter account after a disagreement with philosopher and activist Cornel West over West s editorial in The Guardian titled Ta Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle 82 83 Coates caused some controversy in 2021 for his writing of Captain America volume 9 28 in which he depicted the Nazi super villain Red Skull 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 84 85 Awards edit2012 Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism 18 2013 National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism for Fear of a Black President 86 2014 George Polk Award for Commentary for The Case for Reparations 87 2015 Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Prize for Writing to Advance Social Justice for The Case for Reparations 88 2015 American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship 60 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction for Between the World and Me 7 2015 Fellow of the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation 89 2015 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction for Between the World and Me 90 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in Nonfiction for We Were Eight Years in Power 91 2018 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series for Black Panther World of Wakanda with Roxane Gay and Alitha E Martinez 92 2020 British Fantasy Society Sydney J Bounds Award for The Water DancerBibliography editMonographs edit Asphalt Sketches poetry Baltimore Maryland Sundiata Publications 1990 OCLC 171149459 The Beautiful Struggle A Father Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood New York Spiegel amp Grau 2008 ISBN 978 0 385 52684 5 OCLC 638193286 Between the World and Me Notes on the First 150 Years in America New York Spiegel amp Grau 2015 ISBN 978 0 812 99354 7 OCLC 912045191 We Were Eight Years in Power An American Tragedy New York One World October 3 2017 ISBN 978 0 399 59056 6Comics edit Black Panther vol 6 1 18 166 172 2016 2018 A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1 TPB 144 pages 2016 ISBN 1 3029 0053 6 A Nation Under Our Feet Book 2 TPB 144 pages 2017 ISBN 1 3029 0054 4 A Nation Under Our Feet Book 3 TPB 144 pages 2017 ISBN 1 3029 0191 5 Avengers of the New World Book 1 TPB 144 pages 2017 ISBN 1 3029 0649 6 Avengers of the New World Book 2 TPB 136 pages 2018 ISBN 1 3029 0988 6 Black Panther vol 7 1 25 2018 2021 Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part 1 TPB 136 pages 2019 ISBN 1 3029 1293 3 Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part 2 TPB 136 pages 2019 ISBN 1 3029 1294 1 Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part 3 TPB 136 pages 2020 ISBN 1 3029 1446 4 Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda Part 4 TPB 176 pages 2021 ISBN 1 3029 2110 X Black Panther World of Wakanda 1 6 2016 with Roxane Gay Yona Harvey Vol 1 Dawn of the Midnight Angels TPB 144 pages 2017 ISBN 1 3029 0650 X Black Panther and the Crew 1 6 2017 with Yona Harvey Vol 1 We Are the Streets TPB 136 pages 2017 ISBN 1 3029 0832 4 Captain America vol 9 1 30 2018 2021 Winter in America TPB 152 pages 2019 ISBN 1 3029 1194 5 Captain of Nothing TPB 144 pages 2019 ISBN 1 3029 1195 3 The Legend of Steve TPB 152 pages 2020 ISBN 1 3029 1441 3 All Die Young TPB 144 pages 2021 ISBN 1 3029 2040 5 Free Comic Book Day Vol 2018 AvengersSelected articles edit Promises of an Unwed Father O the Oprah Magazine January 2006 American Girl The Atlantic January February 2009 Profile on Michelle Obama A Deeper Black Early Gerald Lyn and Randall Kennedy Best African American Essays 2010 New York One World Ballantine Books 2010 pp 15 22 ISBN 978 0 553 80692 2 OCLC 320187212 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 ISBN 978 0 231 53706 3 OCLC 861785469 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 edit The Water Dancer One World September 24 2019 ISBN 978 0399590597 93 Short fiction edit Conduction The New Yorker June 3 2019 Multimedia edit with Richard Harrington Nelson George and Kojo Nnamdi Hip Hop Washington D C WAMU American University 1999 OCLC 426123467 Audio conversation recorded January 29 1999 at WAMU FM Washington D C with Stephen Colbert Ta Nehisi Coates The Colbert Report 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 OCLC 904962550 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 Democracy Now July 22 2015 with Jon Stewart Exclusive Ta Nehisi Coates Extended Interview Pt 1 and Pt 2 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart July 23 2015 with Amy Goodman Ta Nehisi Coates Joe Biden Shouldn t Be President Democracy Now June 20 2019 References edit Coates Ta Nehisi Paul February 1 2007 Is Obama Black Enough Time Retrieved May 12 2016 a b c d e f g Gross Terry February 18 2009 Ta Nehisi Coates Unlikely Road to Manhood Fresh Air NPR Retrieved August 15 2015 The name derives from the Egyptian name of Nubia nḥsy for which the vowels are unknown Coates Ta Nehisi July 2 2015 Brief But Spectacular Ta Nehisi Coates PBS Newshour Retrieved August 15 2015 a b Fortin Jacey July 20 2018 Ta Nehisi Coates Is Leaving The Atlantic The New York Times Ta Nehisi Coates The Dig at Howard University Retrieved May 18 2023 a b Spalter Mya February 18 2009 Ta Nehisi Coates Beautiful Struggle to Manhood NPR Retrieved April 5 2014 a b 2015 National Book Awards National Book Foundation Retrieved September 18 2015 Alter Alexandra November 19 2015 Ta Nehisi Coates Wins National Book Award The New York Times Retrieved November 19 2015 2016 Book Awards Short List The Phi Beta Kappa Society a b Gustines George Gene September 22 2015 Ta Nehisi Coates to Write Black Panther Comic for Marvel The New York Times Retrieved September 22 2015 Pogrebin Robin September 29 2015 MacArthur Genius Grant Winners for 2015 Are Announced The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved October 2 2015 Coates Ta Nehisi November 23 2013 In Defense of a Loaded Word The New York Times Retrieved August 15 2015 Bodenner Chris July 26 2015 Between the World and Me Book Club Your Critical Thoughts The Atlantic Retrieved August 15 2015 Finding Your Roots October 24 2017 Smith Jeremy Adam 2009 Returning to Glory Ta Nehisi s Story The Daddy Shift How Stay at Home Dads Breadwinning Moms and Shared Parenting Are Transforming the American Family Boston Beacon Press ISBN 978 0 807 09737 3 OCLC 436443245 Retrieved September 1 2015 a b c d e Pride Felicia June 4 2008 Manning Up The Coates Family s Beautiful Struggle in Word and Deed Baltimore City Paper Archived from the original on June 6 2008 Retrieved August 16 2015 One on 1 Profile Writer Ta Nehisi Coates Takes the Next Big Step in His Career NY1 June 9 2014 Archived from the original on June 11 2014 Retrieved June 12 2014 a b Coates Ta Nehisi 2008 The Beautiful Struggle Spiegel amp Grau ISBN 978 0 385 52036 2 OCLC 190784908 a b M Owens Donna January 29 2015 Baltimore born Ta Nehisi Coates makes his case The Baltimore Sun Retrieved August 16 2015 The guest list Vibe 50 November 2004 permanent dead link Jefferson Tara August 24 2014 Ta Nehisi Coates Presents Case For Reparations At City Club of Cleveland Anisfield Wolf Book Award Retrieved August 15 2015 a b c d e f g h i Smith Jordan Michael March 5 2013 Fear of a Black Pundit Ta Nehisi Coates raises his voice in American media New York Observer Retrieved April 5 2014 Coates Ta Nehisi May 2008 This Is How We Lost to the White Man The Atlantic Retrieved August 15 2015 Coates Ta Nehisi August 22 2012 Fear of a Black President The Atlantic Retrieved December 19 2013 Levenson Tom September 28 2012 Notable narrative Fear of a Black President by Ta Nehisi Coates Nieman Storyboard Retrieved December 19 2013 Coates Ta Nehisi June 2014 The Case for Reparations The Atlantic Retrieved November 20 2014 Roig Franzia Manuel June 18 2014 With Atlantic article on reparations Ta Nehisi Coates sees payoff for years of struggle The Washington Post Retrieved November 20 2014 Full List The Best Blogs of 2011 TIME 2011 2012 Hillman Prize for Opinion amp Analysis Journalism Ta Nehisi Coates Sidney Hillman Foundation April 14 2012 Retrieved October 4 2013 Garfield Bob December 30 2011 How to create an engaging comments section On the media Retrieved October 4 2013 Azi Paybarah October 22 2010 NPR s guide to blogging act like Andrew Sullivan Ben Smith Ta Nehisi Coates WNYC Retrieved October 4 2013 Matias J Nathan October 22 2012 The beauty and terror of commenting communities Ta Nehisi Coates at the Media Lab MIT Center for Civic Media Retrieved October 4 2013 Satter Beryl 2009 Family Properties Race Real Estate and the Exploitation of Black Urban America 1st ed New York N Y Metropolitan Books ISBN 978 0 805 07676 9 OCLC 237018885 a b Klein Ezra July 19 2014 Vox Conversations Should America offer reparations for slavery Vox Retrieved August 15 2015 Inside the Battle for Fair Housing in 1960s Chicago The Atlantic May 21 2014 Retrieved August 15 2015 George Lynell July 9 2008 Lessons from Dad Los Angeles Times Retrieved April 5 2014 Conan Neal June 9 2008 Struggling with Style Ta Nehisi Coates Talk of the Nation NPR Retrieved August 16 2015 Coates Ta Nehisi July 2014 The Littlest Schoolhouse The Atlantic Retrieved April 5 2014 Benjamin Rich September 1 2016 The Beautiful Struggle by Ta Nehisi Coates review subverting white expectations The Guardian Retrieved November 24 2018 Jennifer Maloney June 25 2015 Random House Moves Up Release of Ta Nehisi Coates s Book on Race Relations The Wall Street Journal Retrieved June 27 2015 Kakutani Michiko July 9 2015 Review In Between the World and Me Ta Nehisi Coates Delivers a Searing Dispatch to His Son The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved February 1 2017 Wright Richard Between the World and Me edhelper com Retrieved February 1 2017 Stewart Jon July 23 2015 Exclusive Ta Nehisi Coates Extended Interview Pt 1 The Jon Stewart Show Retrieved August 15 2015 Goodman Amy July 22 2015 Between the World and Me Ta Nehisi Coates Extended Interview on Being Black in America Democracy Now Retrieved September 8 2015 a b Gross Terry July 13 2015 Ta Nehisi Coates on Police Brutality the Confederate Flag and Forgiveness Fresh Air NPR Transcript Retrieved October 27 2017 Norris Michele July 10 2015 Ta Nehisi Coates Looks at the Physical Toll of Being Black in America Morning Edition NPR Retrieved August 16 2015 Hamilton Jack July 9 2015 Between the World and Me Slate Retrieved November 12 2015 The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in General Nonfiction Finalist Between the World and Me by Ta Nehisi Coates Spiegel amp Grau pulitzer com Alter Alexandra November 18 2015 Ta Nehisi Coates Wins National Book Award The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved April 10 2020 Guardian Staff September 21 2019 The 100 best books of the 21st century The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved April 10 2020 Schedeen Jesse May 17 2016 Black Panther Rules April s Comic Book Sales IGN Dockterman Eliana January 20 2017 Ta Nehisi Coates Is Expanding the Black Panther Universe with The Crew Time Nazaryan Alexander May 15 2017 Marvel Cancels Ta Nehisi Coates s Black Panther amp The Crew Comic After Two Issues Time Coates Ta Nehisi February 28 2018 Why I m Writing Captain America The Atlantic We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta Nehisi Coates Penguin Random House Retrieved June 21 2017 Helm Angela August 28 2017 The Root 100 No 1s Ta Nehisi Coates Wanted to Be the Baddest Motherfucking Writer on the Planet The Root Retrieved August 30 2017 Quinn Annalisa September 26 2019 In The Water Dancer Ta Nehisi Coates Creates Magical Alternate History NPR The Water Dancer Oprah s Book Club Penguin Random House Ta Nehisi Coates is 2012 2013 MLK Visiting Scholar Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2012 Retrieved October 4 2013 Dunkin Amy May 1 2014 Ta Nehisi Coates Named Journalist in Residence for the Fall Semester CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Retrieved August 16 2015 Author Ta Nehisi Coates to Join Faculty of NYU s Carter Journalism Institute New York University January 30 2017 Retrieved March 6 2017 Nikole Hannah Jones to join Howard faculty after UNC tenure controversy Washington Post July 6 2021 Retrieved July 6 2021 a b American Library in Paris Visiting Fellowship American Library in Paris Retrieved June 12 2018 Kaltenbach Chris May 4 2015 Md Film Fest panel to feature David Simon Ta Nehisi Coates Taylor Branch James McBride The Baltimore Sun Retrieved August 15 2015 Cep Casey N May 11 2015 Telling the Story of Civil Rights A Conversation in Baltimore The New Yorker Retrieved August 15 2015 Branch Taylor 2006 At Canaan s Edge America in the King Years 1965 68 2006 Hardcover ed New York Simon amp Schuster ISBN 978 0 684 85712 1 OCLC 62118415 Fleming Mike Jr March 5 2014 The Wire s David Simon Takes on Oprah Produced HBO Mini on Martin Luther King Deadline Hollywood Retrieved August 15 2015 Williams Brennan June 8 2017 Ryan Coogler And Michael B Jordan Are Working on a Fourth Film Together Huffington Post Retrieved June 8 2017 Mangum Trey February 26 2021 Exclusive Ta Nehisi Coates To Write Upcoming Superman Film From DC And Warner Bros Shadow and Act Retrieved February 27 2021 Bonomolo Cameron January 22 2024 DC Chief James Gunn Updates Status of Elseworlds Superman Movie comicbook com Retrieved January 28 2024 Ezra Klein February 18 2020 Ta Nehisi Coates on why political power isn t enough for the right Vox Media I think those who perceive a threat symbolically from Barack Obama are kind of correct because kids are going to grow up and they re going to remember as a great authority figure this guy who was African American And if it matters that all the other presidents before him were white then it has to matter that he is black So if white identity is important to you then that might be threatening to you Capo Chichi Sandro November 27 2014 On the Etymology of the Egyptian word Nehesi Nubian NAC s Journal of African Cultures amp Civilizations Paris Retrieved March 24 2022 Morton Paul November 2008 An Interview with Ta Nehisi Coates Bookslut Archived from the original on April 1 2014 Retrieved March 31 2014 Coates Ta Nehisi January 11 2013 Growing Up in the Caves of Chaos The Atlantic Retrieved December 8 2016 Coates Ta Nehisi March 2002 Confessions of a Black Mr Mom Washington Monthly Retrieved August 15 2015 Ta Nehisi Coates The Lavin Agency Archived from the original on August 22 2015 Retrieved August 15 2015 a b Coates Ta Nehisi January 2006 Promises of an Unwed Father O the Oprah Magazine Retrieved August 16 2015 Coates Ta Nehisi December 31 2013 The Myth of Western Civilization The Atlantic Retrieved July 13 2015 Ta Nehisi Coates on Twitter Twitter com December 29 2014 Retrieved July 13 2015 3 Contemporary feminist critiques 40s 60s would be awesome but basically taking what I can get now twitterstorians Coates Ta Nehisi August 31 2010 What Hath Feminism Wrought The Atlantic Retrieved July 13 2015 Coates Ta Nehisi May 9 2016 On Homecomings The Atlantic Retrieved May 11 2016 Stack Liam May 11 2016 Ta Nehisi Coates Opts Out of Move to Brooklyn After Media Attention The New York Times New York Retrieved May 11 2016 The Phi Beta Kappa Society Installs its 286th Chapter at Oregon State University The Phi Beta Kappa Society April 28 2016 Schuessler Jennifer December 19 2017 Ta Nehisi Coates Deletes Twitter Account Amid Feud With Cornel West The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved December 20 2017 West Cornel December 17 2017 Ta Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle Cornel West The Guardian ISSN 0261 3077 Retrieved December 20 2017 raceAhead Ta Nehisi Coates Quits Twitter Fortune Retrieved December 20 2017 Ta Nehisi Coates Deletes Twitter Account Following Dispute With Cornel West Time December 19 2017 Archived from the original on January 5 2018 Retrieved January 24 2021 Jordan Peterson shocked by Captain America villain Red Skull espousing 10 rules for life TheGuardian com April 7 2021 Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine A Change of Heart Towards Jordan Africa Brooke Mikhaila Peterson Podcast 120 YouTube Staff May 2 2013 The Atlantic Wins Two National Magazine Awards The Atlantic Retrieved June 10 2015 Hartocollis Anemona February 15 2015 Polk Awards in Journalism Are Announced Including Three for The Times The New York Times Retrieved February 20 2015 Fillo MaryEllen June 9 2015 Journalist Ta Nehisi Coates Humbly Accepts Award From Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Hartford Courant Retrieved June 26 2015 Calamur Krishnadev September 29 2015 Geniuses Revealed The Atlantic Retrieved April 29 2016 2015 Winners Kirkus Reviews Retrieved March 4 2021 2018 Nonfiction Winner Ta Nehisi Coates We Were Eight Years in Power Dayton Peace Prize Retrieved March 4 2021 Monstress and My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Are Top Winners at 2018 Eisner Awards December 17 2014 Archived from the original on June 7 2017 Retrieved September 20 2018 The Water Dancer by Ta Nehisi Coates PenguinRandomhouse com Retrieved July 23 2019 External links editTa Nehisi Coates at Wikipedia s sister projects nbsp Media from Commons nbsp Quotations from Wikiquote nbsp Data from Wikidata Official website nbsp Ta Nehisi Coates at The Atlantic Appearances on C SPAN nbsp Ta Nehisi Coates on Charlie Rose Ta Nehisi Coates at the Internet Speculative Fiction DatabasePortals nbsp United States nbsp History nbsp Journalism nbsp Maryland Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Ta Nehisi Coates amp oldid 1217824750, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, 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