Ta-Nehisi Coates (‘The Message’) is Live in Los Angeles
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On the heels of his latest book The Message, author Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Sam for a conversation in Los Angeles.
At the top, we discuss how his Atlantic piece The Case for Reparations guided these three new essays (6:10 ), Coates’ early education growing up in West Baltimore (14:57 ), and his powerful dispatches from South Carolina (22:00 ) and the Middle East (29:30 ).
On the back-half, Coates unpacks why he believes the mainstream media prioritizes “factual complexity over self-evident morality” (37:47 ), his advocacy for Palestinian journalists (39:20 ), and his reflections about the U.S. election (47:28 ). To close, a formative passage from James Baldwin's The Lost Generation (52:38 ) and a story about love and writing (57:45 ).
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