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Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom. → Read More
Two years ago I began taking up the childhood dream of writing comics. To say it is more difficult than it looks is to commit oneself to criminal understatement. Writers don’t write comics so much as they draw them with words. Everything has to be shown, a fact I knew going into the work, but could not truly know until I had actually done it. For two years I’ve lived in the world of Wakanda,… → Read More
On Monday, the retired four-star general and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly asserted that “the lack of an ability to compromise lead to the Civil War.” This was an incredibly stupid thing to say. Worse, it built on a long tradition of endorsing stupidity in hopes of making Americans stupid about their own history. Stupid enjoys an unfortunate place in the highest ranks of American… → Read More
In 1998, Toni Morrison wrote a comment for The New Yorker arguing that “white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime.” Last week the New York Times, implicitly cited Morrison’s piece, and claimed the author was giving Clinton “a compliment.” This interpretation of Morrison’s claim is as… → Read More
Activists can’t persuade their contemporaries—they’re aiming at the next generation. → Read More
Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how the 2016 election was a reaction to Obama’s presidency. → Read More
The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy. → Read More
HBO’s Confederate takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated? → Read More
The former president explains what it’s like to be both a person and a symbol. → Read More
The fourth in a series of conversations between the president and Ta-Nehisi Coates → Read More
The second in a series of interviews between Ta-Nehisi Coates and the president → Read More
The first in a series of interviews between Ta-Nehisi Coates and the president. → Read More
A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next → Read More
In a short animation, Barack Obama speaks with Ta-Nehisi Coates about his road to the White House. → Read More
“Newsworthy,” a term that could be applied to everything from Watergate to sex tapes to now the unmasking of novelist Elena Ferrante, lacks the moral force of claiming to act on behalf of the presumed rights of the public. → Read More
Political reporters were taken aback by Hillary Clinton’s charge that half of Trump’s supporters are prejudiced. Few bothered to investigate the claim itself. → Read More
His great accomplishment was to be indicted for a crime and then receive the kind of treatment typically reserved for rich white guys. → Read More
Clinton said half of Donald Trump’s supporters were prejudiced. If anything, her numbers are too low. → Read More
By ignoring illegitimate policing, America has also failed to address the danger this illegitimacy poses to those who must do the policing. → Read More
By ignoring illegitimate policing, America has also failed to address the danger this illegitimacy poses to those who must do the policing. → Read More