ARTICLE

FindCenter AddIcon

The Apocalyptic Baldwin

By Dan Sinykin — 2017

I Am Not Your Negro shows how James Baldwin became disillusioned about the possibility of any peaceful resolution to racism, but underplays the force of his internationalist and anti-capitalist perspective.

Read on www.dissentmagazine.org

FindCenter Post-Image

The Case for Reparations

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Article
Ta-Nehisi Coates
2014
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

The Case for Reparations: An Intellectual Autopsy

Four years ago, I opposed reparations. Here's the story of how my thinking has evolved since then.

Article
Ta-Nehisi Coates
2014
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Criticized Mitch McConnell for Saying Slavery’s Effects Were in the Past

Just one day after Mitch McConnell spoke out against reparations for slavery, author Ta-Nehisi Coates passionately argued in favor of them at a House hearing on the topic.

Article
Jasmine Aguilera
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why Whites Like His Writing

“The history is what the history is. And it is disrespectful, to white people, to soften the history.”

Article
Felice León
2015
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Imagining a New America

Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends—and not spare the hard truths.

Article
Krista Tippett
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Obama’s Greatest Weakness

And why you can’t blame progressivism for the Democrats’ losses this election.

Article
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, David Plotz
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Why Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Hopeful

The author of Between the World and Me on why this isn’t 1968, the Colin Kaepernick test, police abolition, nonviolence and the state, and more.

Article
Ezra Klein
2020
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Here’s What Ta-Nehisi Coates Told Congress About Reparations

The writer argued that African-Americans were exploited by nearly every American institution, before and after slavery ended.

Article
The New York Times
2019
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Post-Image

Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations

“When I wrote ‘The Case for Reparations,’ my notion wasn’t that you could actually get reparations passed, even in my lifetime,” Coates says.

Article
The New Yorker
2019
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Racism