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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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First Day Of School Thread

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep 6 2011, 7:41 AM ET Comment

Off to drop the boy. We made the switch to private this year. I'm kind of mourning my exodus from the proletariat--but only symbolically.

Special shout out to Kenyatta in her third year at Columbia. Physics time! It's a new year. A new day. 

Go get em tiger.


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