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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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No carbon shall escape my sight

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Aug 4 2008, 4:01 PM ET Comment

Some environmental tips from my buddy Brendan Koerner, making his debut on the Colbert Report. Brendan is the author of a great new book about a black WWII G.I who kills his superior officer and flees into the jungle to do drugs with Naga headhunters. Brendan is one of the hardest working men in magazines. But most of us on the web know him as The Green Lantern.




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