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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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Roland Burris--Painful

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

May 28 2009, 9:00 AM ET Comment

I don't even know what to say about this. It's like watching Greek tragedy. Here you have a guy who lived a decent, honorable life, brought low by ambition. This is an ugly, ugly stain. Greed kills. On another note, who advised Burris to go on Hardball? What were they thinking?



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