ta-nehisi coates
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2019 Tribeca Film Festival: The Apollo Provides a Soul-Stirring Tribute to the Iconic Sanctuary for Blackness
The 18th Tribeca Film Festival invited its attendees to the beautiful blackness of Harlem for its opening night film, The Apollo. Naturally, the documentary screening was held at its namesake theater. I had the honor of attending opening night, and by extension, I had the honor of stepping into The Apollo Theater for the very…
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Penguin Random House Announces Closure of Publisher Spiegel & Grau
Penguin Random House announced their decision to shutter publishing imprint Spiegel & Grau, best town for its best-selling works on nonfiction. The move comes as another part of the effort to streamline Penguin Random House following the merger 2013 between publishing titans Penguin and Random House. Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau, the imprint’s co-founders, will…
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If We’ve Ever Needed the LDF Before, We Sure Do Need Them Now
To attend the LDF’s 32nd annual National Equal Justice Awards Dinner themed: “Justice. Equality. Democracy,” is to swell with a sense of pride in the organized, brilliant pushback of our people in courts all over the land; it’s to know that two black women (Sherrilyn Ifill and Janai Nelson) are at the helm of this…
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Univision Bosses Incompetent, Staffers Write
Critical Report Appears on Own Websites USA Today Has Its First Publisher of Color Sun-Times Wants R. Kelly to ‘Pay the Price’ From Coates: ‘I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye’ Latest Falsehood: Black Support for Trump Doubled Cox Names Sharon Wilmore Editor in Ohio Elias Lopez Gets International Opinions Post Fatal Police Shootings of Unarmed Citizens…
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‘Street Talk’ From Huckabee Sanders?
Ryan Offended by ‘You Don’t Know Much About Me’ Coates: I Didn’t Have the Luxury of Avoiding Racists Camille Cosby: Media Too Easily Believed Accusers Reporters Link Some White Nationalists to Military Hostility Toward Press Found Worsening in U.S. Pair Create Positive Space for Black Millennials Coping Advice Offered for Career Women of Color Sun-Times…
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Kamilah Forbes’ Beautiful Struggle: Bringing Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me to the Stage
We are not crazy. We know all is not well. Despite what they say. We know that the “greatest country in the world” has never been. That our skin bears the mark that easily presages death. That our kin are in danger. We know that our bodies can be snatched at will, that our children…
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Ava DuVernay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Janelle Monáe and More Join Call for Justice for Slain Afro-Brazilian Activist
More than two weeks after the assassination of Marielle Franco, an Afro-Brazilian politician who had staunchly advocated against police violence, grim details have emerged around her death. As Kiratiana Freelon reported for The Root, the 38-year-old Franco was gunned down in her car by armed men in Rio de Janeiro. She was shot a total…
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50 Years After Kerner Report Criticizing Representation of Black People in Media, Some Say It Wasn’t Taken Seriously
Media Were ‘Shockingly Backward’ on Blacks Tweets Show Media Are Considered Clueless . . . Income Inequality, Wealth Gap Have Widened Tapper Blasts Politicians Who Meet With Farrakhan Unity Votes to Dissolve Indian Country Today Revived; Trahant to Edit Amy Holmes to Co-Host Conservative PBS Show Brazile Calls Russian Hacking ‘National Emergency’ RTDNA Asks Journalists…
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How io9’s Evan Narcisse Went From Writing About Comics to Writing Rise of the Black Panther
Oprah’s Golden Globe speech. The 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. The Atlanta season 2 trailer. Marvel’s Black Panther dropping in a month. We’re only a week into 2018, and the official Conscious Negro Advent Calendar is already half full. However, Oprah, Atlanta and MLK are all known properties, but aside from a…
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Book Notes 2017: Best Sellers, Uncovered Treasures, Overlooked History
Our annual holiday season list of nonfiction books by journalists of color or those of special interest to them: Ta-Nehisi Coates; Lewis W. Diuguid; Angela P. Dodson; Chike Frankie Edozien; Darcy Eveleigh, Dana Canedy, Damien Cave and Rachel L. Swarns; Gerald Horne; Gerrick D. Kennedy; Jeff Pegues; Byron Pitts; Otis Sanford; Anya Schiffrin; Matt Taibbi…