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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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Morning in America

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jan 21 2009, 9:02 AM ET Comment

Meh, probably not. But I'm feeling better already. When I was young, I was cynical--the sort of dude who would tell you that it didn't matter which party had the White House, or that the Dems as just an extension of corporatism gone amock. I think George Bush did almost as much to mature me, as my parents. And now change begins.


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