This summer I'll be doing some work as guest columnist for the New York Times Op-Ed page. To give you some sense of what to expect, here is a preview of my first column.
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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.