Ta-Nehisi Coates Has a Message to Deliver. Can We Hear It?
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Few writers have examined the tension between history and morality more urgently than Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Last fall, on the heels of his new book The Message, Coates joined Sam for a conversation live in Los Angeles. At the top, they 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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