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Here Is the Missing Context in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Message’
You’ve probably heard about one of them, “The Message” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which came out this month and is already a best seller. Coates, the prizewinning author of “Between the World and Me,” is a writer who,
What the row over Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book reveals about free speech
It is discourteous to both your subjects and readers to spin a book out of a ten-day visit to a bitterly contested foreign land. First impressions can be valuable—and Mr Coates’s observations on the wrongs of Israeli settlements are powerful—but they are also incomplete.
Why we should listen to Ta-Nehisi Coates even if we may disagree with him
Coates' controversial new book "The Message" offers thought-provoking insights about the dangers of mythologizing our past.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Myth of Black Fragility
The debate revolves around Ta-Nehisi Coates, who went on the “CBS Mornings” program to promote his provocative new book, “The Message,” and was greeted with a series of tough questions from the co-host Tony Dokoupil.
In ‘The Message,’ Ta-Nehisi Coates urges his students to see for themselves
The Message” is a collection of commentaries about African ancestry and identity, political power and polarity, and finally, a damning assessment of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Column: Here’s what Ta-Nehisi Coates got right about Israel and Palestinians
The author of 'The Message' insists on moral clarity about Israeli oppression, but the threat from Hamas and others is clearer than anything else in the conflict.
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What Ta-Nehisi Coates Doesn't Understand About Us Palestinians | Opinion
This is not a civil rights struggle akin to 1960s America or apartheid South Africa. It's grown into a fully-blown military conflict between two separate nationhoods.
‘CBS Mornings' Co-Host Gayle King On Controversial Ta-Nehisi Coates Interview: "Life Is Hard. The News Is Hard. Sometimes, You Have Hard Conversations On Television"
CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King says the show’s controversial interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates earlier this fall has ...
Gayle King says ‘Sometimes, you have hard conversations on television’ after Ta-Nehisi Coates interview controversy
Following an explosive “CBS Mornings” interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Gayle King says she and her co-hosts will not “shy ...
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[Opinion] ‘CBS Mornings’ Co-Host Gayle King Finally Breaks Her Silence on Controversial Ta-Nehisi Coates Interview
Last month, an intense interview between “CBS Mornings” co-anchor Tony Dokoupil and author Ta-Nehisi Coates went viral after ...
Gayle King breaks silence on ‘CBS Mornings’ co-host Tony Dokoupil’s Ta-Nehisi Coates interview
"I think we don’t shy away from hard conversations either. So, I think it’s been a learning thing for everybody,” she said.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Challenging the Cognitive Dissonance of Pro-Israel Liberalism
Coates is taking critiques of Zionism into the mainstream, chipping away at Israel’s increasingly dubious liberal self-image.