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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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The Ruler's Back

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Jan 12 2010, 2:52 PM ET Comment

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Funny we were just discussing this the other day. Looks like it's in the works. I feel like such a wimp for responding to it, but hey, I'm interested. I need to do some thinking on why I became such a Shadowcat fan. Storm is probably my all-time favorite among the X-Men (for obvious reasons.) I wanted to kill somebody when they cast Halle Berry.

But Shadowcat was awesome. I started collecting when Magneto joined the team, and they were bonding over the Holocaust. Thought that was awesome.



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