In ‘The Message,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about the stories that fuel bigotry
Coates’s latest, a travelogue and a meditation on aesthetics and politics, is not dramatic enough to be as provocative as its loudest critics have claimed
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israel: ‘I Felt Lied To’
In his new book of essays, “ The Message ,” Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about a trip he took to Israel and the West Bank in May 2023. “I felt lied to,” he told me. “I felt lied to by my craft. I felt lied to by major media organizations.”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Corrects the Record
Despite his extraordinary success, Ta-Nehisi Coates still carries the habits of the blogger in his writerly DNA. Although he got his start as a journalist at the Washington City Paper in the 1990s under the tutelage of David Carr while still an undergraduate at Howard University,
Review: In 'The Message,' Ta-Nehisi Coates seeks a kind of corrective redemption
The Message” recalls the spirit of Baldwin as Ta-Nehisi Coates places himself in foreign surroundings to gain a better understanding of himself and the world.
Ta-Nehisi Coates questions whether he would have participated in Oct. 7 attack
Am I also strong enough or even constructed in such a way where I say this is too far? I don't know that I am’
Ta-Nehisi Coates brings his ‘Message’ to the Apollo
You wonder how author Ta-Nehisi Coates felt sitting on the stage of the Apollo Theater fielding questions from journalist Ayman Mohyeldin.
On GPS: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the plight of Palestinians
Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Fareed to talk about his new book “The Message.” He explains what horrified him on a trip to Israel and the West Bank, and why he thinks Palestinians are living under apartheid.
Ta-Nehisi Coates has the diagnosis — but not the cure
With his new book The Message, Ta-Nehisi Coates, a journalist who indelibly shaped the national conversation on race in America during the Obama years, turns his scrupulous attention toward yet another tinderbox of a problem: that of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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‘I Just Don’t Want to Hear’ It: Ta-Nehisi Coates Tells Ezra Klein Why He Didn’t Speak to Mainstream Israelis For Book
Ezra Klein spoke to author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has sparked fierce debate in recent weeks with his new book of essays, “The ...
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I’m a Jew of color. Ta-Nehisi Coates can’t apply U.S. lessons to Israel
Ta-Nehisi Coates is trying to apply an American paradigm to Israel. The history of oppression in the Holy Land is too complex ...
Opinion: Ta-Nehisi Coates CBS interviewer denied him a civil platform to share his view
Columnist Andrea Williams writes for the USA TODAY Network Tennessee. She is the curator of the Black Tennessee Voices ...
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Book Review: Ta-Nehisi Coates visits Senegal, South Carolina and the Middle East for ‘The Message’
Ta-Nehisi Coates returns with a slim volume of three essays called “The Message.” Based on trips he took to Senegal, South ...
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Was the viral Ta-Nehisi Coates interview a hit piece or fair play? A journalism ethics expert weighs in.
After Tony Dokoupil’s questions on CBS Mornings faced criticism, the network said it fell short of editorial standards ...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Palestine Visit Revealed the Plain, Brutal Truth of Apartheid
Coates’s new book is based on his visit to the West Bank, where he saw a system of segregation reminiscent of Jim Crow.