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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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Quote Of The Year

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Oct 15 2009, 6:49 PM ET Comment

Keith Bardwell, Louisiana justice of the peace explaining why he refused to grant a marriage license to an interracial couple...

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way,"
Of course Bardwell isn't a racist. There aren't any racists in America.


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