In his Atlantic magazine blog, Ta-Nehisi Coates uses his sardonic wit to warn that the bourgie black folk will likely square off during the Morehouse and Howard game today. Trigger Warning: This post involves black people speaking a high yaller dialect of Ebonics. Proceed at your own risk.  As all bourgie colored people surely know,…

The Atlantic Magazine blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates tries to make sense of claims that Ron Suskind, author of Confidence Men, manufactured quotes about the White House — or of the idea that high-ranking public officials would lie about giving quotes to a journalist. He opens his blog with a New York Times story about the book:…

Atlantic magazine blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates uses Troy Davis’ case to highlight the importance of personal activism to fight against the death penality and to uphold the legacy of the civil rights movement. Barring some miracle, it appears that the state will kill Troy Davis. My feelings on the death penalty are quite clear, and remain…

Atlantic magazine blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates weighs in on President Obama’s argument against focusing on the black community’s economic struggles. Coates agrees that a black agenda wouldn’t necessarily help the most vulnerable African Americans, but he also says it’s worth reviewing how interest groups influence policy in America. …I think it’s worth noting, in point of…

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in his blog at the Atlantic that while he can understand why Sean Bell’s killers didn’t go to jail, he is not convinced that an officer who made such a grave mistake should continue in his chosen line of work. On the eve of his wedding Sean Bell was killed by the…

Ta-Nehisi Coates writes in his blog at the Atlantic about some cases of wrongdoing by the NYPD, including the recent conviction of a police officer for planting drugs on a woman and her boyfriend. The police chief encourages us to see the transgressors as a small minority, but they’re still members of a force that…

In a blog entry at the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates tries to understand student outrage over the firing of Penn State coach Joe Paterno in the wake of sex-abuse allegations against an assistant coach. They have shown an utter lack of compassion for the victims, he says. … Can anyone here try to get into the…

In a blog entry at the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes that while he is certain Chelsea Clinton is intelligent and talented, he is also certain that there are a lot of aspiring journalists dying to be offered a job by NBC News President Steve Capus. Clinton reportedly landed a job at NBC after Capus asked…

In a blog entry at Atlantic magazine, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores why conservative hoaxers consistently insert hard right-wing views into Bill Cosby’s mouth. The discussion comes about after an email supposedly written by Cosby attacks welfare recipients. … Cosby seems about the age of someone who’d have these views. Moreover, Cosby is fondly remembered as “America’s…