Ta-Nehisi Coates, with his skillful writing and thoughtful analysis, has emerged as one of the most important voices of our times. In this episode, Ta-Nehisi and host Brad Johnson discuss his upbringing, the deep reverence he holds for black institutions, the strong desire for sense of place and home, his sense of freedom in myth writing, the professional distance needed to write about certain people, allowing a book to be written on its own terms, his love of the djembe drum, and thoughts on economic inequality.
Ta-Nehisi is an award-winning author and journalist. He is the author of the bestselling books, The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award in 2015.
As a journalist with a career spanning over two decades, he's written for numerous publications including The Washington City Paper, The Village Voice, The New Yorker and The New York Times. As a National Correspondent for The Atlantic, he penned numerous articles and essays, including the National Magazine Award-winning 2012 essay Fear of a Black President and the influential June 2014 essay The Case for Reparations.
Ta-Nehisi will soon add screenwriter to his list of credentials. He is currently writing the screenplays for the upcoming films Wrong Answer, Superman and the film adaptation of his first fiction novel, The Water Dancer.
While his successful run writing Marvel's Black Panther ended in April 2021, he continues to write Marvel's Captain America.
He is currently in his fourth year as a distinguished writer in residence at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
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