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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 Gentrified

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Mar 15 2010, 2:00 PM ET Comment

My good friend Neil Drumming, who has guest-blogged here before, did the following short with Gbenga Akkinagbe (Chris from The Wire) and Sofia Regan. I feel like I've seen this dude like 100 times. Often he isn't black. Apparently on the Lower East Side they're putting up "Locals Only" signs to scare off hipsters and yuppies. I'm almost certain that those sign are actually the work of hipsters, and possibly yuppies. (What are yuppies but yesterday's hipsters?) No one else has that kind of time.



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