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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.
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Sorry, More On Hitchens And Michelle

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

May 27 2008, 5:50 AM ET Comment

So I wrote this long drawn out post a few weeks ago, attempting to refute Hitch's insinuation that Michelle Obama had induced Barack into joining Trinity. But commenter Rhondacoca offers a much shorter version for why Hitchens is off his rocker:

Obama met Wright in 1985. He didn't met Michelle untill 1988. They got married in 1990.

The End=)




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