Let's go. We're going to have a two-parter here. This will be a general discussion, and then later we have a guest-posts by commenter deathbypapers on the historiography of WHGW.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, Between the World and Me, We Were Eight Years in Power, and The Water Dancer.