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  • My President Was Black

    My President Was Black The Atlantic January/February 2017 Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent Ian Allen A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next “They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I. “Love Will Make…

  • The Professors vs. The President: Has Obama Done Enough for African-Americans?

    The Professors vs. The President: Has Obama Done Enough for African-Americans? NBC News 2016-02-28 Perry Bacon Jr., Senior Political Reporter Michael Eric Dyson and Eddie Glaude Jr., two well-respected black intellectuals and professors, make the same argument in books they have released over the last month: President Obama hasn’t done enough on policy to help…

  • Op-Ed Thomas Chatterton Williams: My black privilege

    Op-Ed Thomas Chatterton Williams: My black privilege The Los Angeles Times 2016-01-03 Thomas Chatterton Williams A couple of years ago, I participated in an Aspen Institute symposium on the state of race. During the roundtable that followed the panels, as I spoke about my experiences growing up black in the 1990s, I was interrupted by…

  • Between the World and Me: Empathy Is a Privilege

    Between the World and Me: Empathy Is a Privilege The Atlantic 2015-09-28 John Paul Rollert, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Behavioral Science University of Chicago Booth School of Business Barack Obama and Ta-Nehisi Coates have made race and empathy central to their writing, but their conclusions point in radically different directions. Don’t despair. According to Ta-Nehisi…

  • Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

    Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid The Atlantic 2014-11-26 Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent Violence works. Nonviolence does too. In a recent dispatch from Ferguson, Missouri, Jelani Cobb noted that President Obama’s responses to “unpunished racial injustices” constitute “a genre unto themselves.” Monday night, when Barack Obama stood before the nation to interpret…

  • America has never discriminated on the basis of race (which does not exist) but on the basis of racism (which most certainly does.)

    “”The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race,” John Roberts elegantly wrote. Liberals have yet to come up with a credible retort. That is because the theories of John Roberts are prettier than the theories of most liberals. But more, it is because liberals do not…

  • Obstructing the right of black humans and white humans to form families is a central feature of American racism…

    The problem here isn’t that we think Richard Cohen gags at the sight of an interracial couple and their children. The problem is that Richard Cohen thinks being repulsed isn’t actually racist, but “conventional” or “culturally conservative.” Obstructing the right of black humans and white humans to form families is a central feature of American…

  • What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’

    What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’ The Atlantic 2013-05-15 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor In a world where Kevin Garnett, Harold Ford, and Halle Berry all check “black” on the census, even the argument that racial labels refer to natural differences in physical traits doesn’t hold up. Andrew Sullivan and Freddie…

  • The Atlantic Wins Two National Magazine Awards

    The Atlantic Wins Two National Magazine Awards The Atlantic Press Releases 2013-05-02 For media inquiries, please contact: Natalie Raabe at  (202) 266-7533. Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y. (May 2, 2013)—The Atlantic won two National Magazine Awards, it was announced tonight by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). Atlantic senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates won in…

  • Fear of a Black President

    Fear of a Black President The Atlantic September 2012 Ta-Nehisi Coates As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to be “twice as good” and “half as black,” Obama…