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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 Suburbs

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep 1 2010, 3:00 PM ET Comment

Haven't heard the album—gonna cop today. Any thoughts? Forgive my tardiness. I've been gone. Monday I came in on the bus and saw a big poster for Angelina Jolie's Salt, and thought, "Oh yeah, she did have a movie out..."



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