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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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Hard Numbers On Driving While Black

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jul 30 2009, 2:29 PM ET Comment

Not that they tell you much. I don't know. It's moments like this when I really feel skeptical of our metric-driven society. That said, I'm sure someone else, somewhere can pull a really sound argument out of this. But it ain't me.


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