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[…] Policy Students will read two books chosen by Plaza “because they highlight resistance by African Americans to systemic and institutional racism”: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. According to a copy of the syllabus obtained by Campus Reform, the course will teach students about the […]

[…] made, the education I received, made me the woman I am today. There is no sense of inferiority instilled in me .” “Howard created Zora Neale Hurston, Ta-Nehisi Coates and, now, Vice President Harris,” said Danley. “Greatness isn’t necessarily attached to where you go to school; cream will always rise to the top.” Politics as […]

[…] a century. The concert was preceded by a provocative conversation convened by The Atlantic between the ten-time Grammy winner, and the magazine’s national correspondent and National Book Award winner Ta-Nehisi Coates. The conversation, part of the ongoing “Atlantic Exchange” series, added powerful perspective and depth to an incomparable evening. The Atlantic Exchange series curates intimate conversations with […]

[…] and happily agreed to speak at our ZOA Gala,” ZOA president Morton Klein said in a statement, quoting one of the rapper’s best known hits. MORE NEWS: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why He Didn’t Celebrate Biden Win, Going to Howard with Chadwick Boseman & More (Watch) NEWS: Ice Cube will be a speaker at the ZOA’s […]

[…] very real 1921 massacre of the Tulsa neighborhood known as Black Wall Street. Lindelof first learned about the event from a 2014 piece in The Atlantic by Ta-Nehisi Coates called “The Case for Reparations,” and his shock that he hadn’t known about it before grew into a resolve to make the event the centerpiece of his show. […]