When asked Tuesday night about ways to overcome racial inequality, acclaimed author, journalist and educator Ta-Nehisi Coates was direct. “Sometimes I wonder whether it’s possible,” he said ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates Dedicates His National Book Award to His Late Friend Prince Jones in His Speech By E. Alex Jung , a features writer at New York and Vulture Nov. 19, 2015 ...

Early in “We Were Eight Years in Power,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’ third book, he writes, “[t]here is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism.

Enter The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates with “We Were Eight Years in Power,” a collection of Coates’ essays that chronicle his impressions of America and Obama ... Hateful speech, absolutely.

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez discuss Martin Luther King Jr. and what's next for America. ... Still, the speech is considered a turning point in public opinion toward the Vietnam War.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, by his own acknowledgment, is very influential among white, liberal readers.For the better part of a decade, reading Coates, being able to discuss his work, and to engage with it ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks to more than a thousand Howard University, students, staff, faculty and alumni during the 149th annual convocation speech. (Photos by Justin Knight, Howard University ...

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates says he long felt the pull to visit Africa — and yet it was a trip he kept putting off. "When you're Black in this country, Africa — or the story that's told about ...