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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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Apropos Of Nothing

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Oct 29 2009, 1:37 PM ET Comment

Man, who didn't love this...

UPDATE: Responding to Breaker's point below about iconic moments, I don't think this sort of thing could happen today. Media is just so fragmented.

I spent a lot of time railing against Obama/Cosby comparisons. But I think Obama's victory comes close in that sort of iconic way--I just won't forget all the pictures of crying black people. Of course that's politics, not entertainment. Man, am I glad that I was alive to see that...




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