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Radicalizing Yoga and Bringing Social Justice to the Mat

By Stephanie Van Hook — 2019

Yoga teacher and activist Michelle C. Johnson talks to Nonviolence Radio about her book “Skill In Action.”

Read on wagingnonviolence.org

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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.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2014
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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.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2014
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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.

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Krista Tippett
2019
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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.

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Jasmine Aguilera
2019
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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.

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Ezra Klein
2020
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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.

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The New York Times
2019
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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.

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The New Yorker
2019
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Mandela and the Question of Violence

One should never lose sight of why America preaches nonviolence to some people while urging other people to arms.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2013
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