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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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Literal Live Blogging

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Oct 7 2008, 8:49 PM ET Comment

OK, this is wierd. I'm at Claremont-McKenna College doing a talk and a bunch of us are going to watch the debate. I'm going to live-blog while we watch. I generally like the whole "blogging in my underwear eating fritos" deal. I guess that won't work tonight, huh?

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