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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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In the year of the dragon, lots of men disappear...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dec 31 2008, 10:37 PM ET Comment

Happy New Year boys and girls. 2008 has been good to me--but not as good as the people who read this blog. Hope 2009 is beautiful for every one of you. With your support--as well as the continued insanity of this post-racial age--it'll be a good one for this blogs. Kiss your wives. Hug your daughters. Give a pound to your sons. We're off.

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