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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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Out of the Sky, His Rockets Ignite

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Aug 18 2010, 9:10 AM ET Comment

A quick programming note. Somehow I forgot that the truly awesome Mr. Len was supposed to be guest-blogging here. Len is a fixture on the underground scene up here, and probably best known as one third--and then one half--of Company Flow. 

Chat him about music and all things black and nerdy. He is one of us.


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