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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.

New York About To Get Its First Black Governor

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Mar 10 2008, 3:00 PM ET Comment

Here it comes. I feel bad for Spitz, mostly because I think prostitution should be legal, but then he enforced the law as it was. So I don't know.



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