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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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By Ta-Nehisi Coates
Feb 10 2009, 2:00 PM ET Comment

I haven't read James Parker's take on Battlestar Galactica, mostly because I'm afraid to--I'm only in the first season. But that shouldn't stop you from reading it here, and subscribing to the print magazine. You need to know who I am in this. I'm on contract to blog here, nothing else. So I have no direct incentive to push the print on you. Except this: I'm a writer and a reader. And I know that we live in an era where magazines are falling down around us. The Atlantic is one of maybe two or three rags where you can get a profile of Chuck Schumer, an analysis of Battlestar, a meditation on the end of white people, and some guy rambling about Michelle Obama.

Anyway, that's my lecture for the day. Also check out Parker's commentary below.

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