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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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Irony Alert

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Feb 18 2009, 11:00 AM ET Comment

I greatly enjoyed my stint at TIME magazine. Met some good people, did some so-so stories, and, for the first time in my life, made a salary that I could support a family on. Good memories. So, with that in mind, I hope no one takes this the wrong. It's probably a bad idea for any magazine--but especially TIME--to make a list of the Five Most Overrated Blogs.


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