Skip Navigation
Ta-Nehisi Coates

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.
« Previous Coates | Next Coates » Email Email Print Print

The Problem With No TV...

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Aug 20 2009, 1:41 PM ET Comment

...Is that I can't catch Real Housewives Of Atlanta. They announced this show, I believe, just when we were thinking about cutting off the cable and tossing the box. I was, and am, really curious. Helena Andrews says I'm not missing much. Meh. Wasn't like I was expecting much. Still, equality means the right for black people to publicly act a fool in all the ways that have been denied to us for so long. I was looking forward to seeing us overcome.


Presented by

More at The Atlantic

Yayoi Kusama: The Polka-Dot-Loving Art Legend I Initially Mistook for Crazy Yayoi Kusama: The Polka-Dot-Loving Art Legend I Initially Mistook for Crazy
David Cameron, Europe's Latest Scapegoat David Cameron, Europe's Latest Scapegoat
For the 1st Time Ever, a Majority of the Unemployed Have Attended College The New Unemployed
A Brief History of Time Travel (in Movies) A Brief History of Time Travel (in Movies)
White Resentment, Obama, and Appalachia The Problem With Appalachia's Resentment for Obama

Join the Discussion

After you comment, click Post. If you’re not already logged in you will be asked to log in or register.
blog comments powered by Disqus

Correspondents

View All Correspondents

The Biggest Story in Photos

The American West, 150 Years Ago

May 24, 2012

Subscribe Now

SAVE 59%! 10 issues JUST $2.45 PER COPY

Facebook

Newsletters

Sign up to receive our free newsletters

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

(sample)

Ta-Nehisi Coates
from the Magazine

Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?

Ta-Nehisi Coates is an Atlantic senior editor.

Fade to White

A filmmaker maps Austin’s shifting ethnic landscape.

The Legacy of Malcolm X

Why his vision lives on in Barack Obama