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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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Losing Everyone

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

May 19 2009, 12:57 PM ET Comment

Except churchgoers over 65. Amazing. And then not really.

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