Nov. 3, 2015 | 8:00 p.m. | Miller Auditorium, WMU
Kalamazoo Community Foundation’s 2015 Community Meeting: “Ta-Nehisi Coates: On Race in America”
An Atlantic National Correspondent, Ta-Nehisi Coates has penned many influential articles. One of the most famous is “This is How We Lost to the White Man.” Last year, Coates’s lively Atlantic blog—a lesson in how to thoroughly engage a community of readers—was named by Time as one of the 25 Best in the World. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ critically hailed debut, “The Beautiful Struggle”, is a tough and touching memoir of growing up in Baltimore during the age of crack. Coates’ new book “Between the World and Me” - a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history - will be published on Sept. 8, 2015.
Coates is a former writer for The Village Voice, and a contributor to Time, O, and The New York Times Magazine. In 2012, he was awarded the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism. Coates is the Journalist in Residence at the School of Journalism at CUNY. He was previously the Martin Luther King Visiting Associate Professor at MIT.
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