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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD? - AJ+ Opinion

2019

How is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome different from PTSD? Dr. Joy DeGruy explains how trauma can be passed on generation after generation. How is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome different from PTSD? Dr. Joy DeGruy explains how trauma can be passed on generation after generation.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Obama’s Greatest Weakness

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

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, David Plotz
2020
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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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The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir

An exceptional father-son story from the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2009
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“We were eight years in power” was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates
2017
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