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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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I Thought Black People Killed By Accident

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dec 1 2009, 6:40 PM ET Comment

Nice way to finish things. Here's Richard Pryor being awesome, and summing up the dilemma of the socially conscious young brother, assaulted by reality.



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