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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.

Talking fatherhood...again

By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Dec 2 2008, 5:00 PM ET Comment

Here I am with Adam Gopnik talking about Obama's impact on fatherhood. This also give me a chance to once again link (here and here) to some debunking of that simplistic "70 percent out of wedlock" stat. Obviously I'm for more Dads being more active. But my real point here is that this idea that unmarried black women are somehow having more kids than they were, say, thirty or forty years ago is false. Again, my math is so-so. I welcome folks to debunk the debunker.



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