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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 Walkers

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep 8 2010, 6:53 PM ET Comment

Just a quick reminder that on this Friday, I'll have the luxury of reading with some awesome talent to kick off the Brooklyn Book Festival.

RingShout: a Place for Black Literature
kicks off its new reading series
and celebrates the 2010 
Brooklyn Book Festival

Join us for an evening of readings by four acclaimed African-American writers. 

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Tayari Jones, Jeffrey Renard Allen and Danielle Evans
 
DJ Sounds by Rob Fields

 

  Littlefield
622 Degraw Street (3rd and 4th Avenue)

 

Friday, September 10th 
  7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Suggested donation: $5



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