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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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Let us now speak of a great man of Chicago

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nov 6 2008, 1:17 PM ET Comment

What, Barack? You're bugging. You know I've maintained Jim Brown was the greatest, but looking at this video man, I don't know. Sweetness was the truth. It's so weird so see a dude running holding the ball in one hand like that, and doing that high step join in mid-run. He was sick, and apparently an incredibly, incredibly kind person. Gone too soon.



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