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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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The Day They Drove Old Dixie Down

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Aug 7 2009, 7:14 PM ET Comment

Or drove down to old Dixie, rather. I'm going to Virginia next week in hopes of making all that I've been reading real. Or at least some of it. I have some ideas about what I'd like to see. But I'd love to hear some suggestions on battle-sites, and slave plantations. I have a few days. I wanna take in as much as I can.

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