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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.

This Is How You Nail Someone

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
May 6 2008, 12:41 PM ET Comment

Dig Jason Berry's superb piece on William "Cash In The Freezer" Jefferson. Beautiful piece of writing and reporting. The Washington Monthly never disappoints. Great magazine in an era when all magazines are endangered.



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