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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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"If You Hit 'Em Low It's Good Luck..."

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dec 24 2009, 10:13 AM ET Comment

I'd urge all wrestling fans to check out Lipstick and Dynamite, a documentary on old school female wrestling. I watched it a couple years back, and found the women to just be amazing. I wanted to embed to the trailer, but it's chock full of pronouncements about "equality" and "breaking barriers." That's all cool. But tell me a fucking story. It's like the people who cut the trailer didn't trust the film so they inserted all this activist-speak. Which is too bad. Because it's wonderful. A couple clips below and after the jump.








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