Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in ‘The Message’
Ta-Nehisi Coates teaches at Howard University, where he's the Sterling Brown endowed chair in the English department. Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates says he long felt the pull to visit Africa — and yet it was a trip he kept putting off. "When you're Black in this country, Africa — or the story that's told about Africa — is a weight," Coates says. "I always knew it was a trip that I had to take. But I think, […]
