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Rarely has a book been so lavishly applauded as Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me was in 2015. The book fetched gushing reviews, admiring interviews in prestigious media, won eminent literary prizes, and almost instantly landed on high school and college required reading lists all over the country.

The book’s rapturous reception, as I can’t be the first to note, rather undermined its central assertion that white Americans are natural-born racists and that the United States is and always has been rooted in white supremacy. A nation so constituted would have ignored Coates’s book, or suppressed it. I wondered at the time if he was made uncomfortable by all the praise or if he secretly hoped America’s cultural arbiters would denounce him and demand that bookstores and libraries remove his book from their shelves.

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WATCH: What 'Standards'? CBS Execs Rebuked Anchor's Tough Questions on Israel But Let Gayle King's Softballs Slide

CBS News executives are under fire for accusing anchor Tony Dokoupil of violating the network’s "editorial standards" by asking tough questions of anti-Israel author and left-wing darling Ta-Nehisi Coates. 

But network brass has expressed no such consternation over star anchor Gayle King’s expression, on the air, of her own left-wing views. 

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'Antiracist' Intellectual Blames Israel for Hamas Atrocities

Ta-Nehisi Coates, the multimillionaire "antiracist" author described by the New York Times as one of America's "most influential intellectuals and writers," spearheaded an open letter blaming Israel for "the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza."

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Smeared By MSNBC For Refusing To Teach Kids To Hate Each Other, Colorado School District Hits Back

After being targeted by MSNBC, Colorado’s conservative Woodland Park School District is correcting the record.

California’s Reparations ‘Task Force’ Cites Three Prominent Critical Race Theorists Dozens Of Times

'Cuddly, feel-good diversity'

California Greenlights Slave Reparations Without Plans To Prove Ancestry

California is moving forward with plans to provide reparations to black residents descended from African slaves, despite not knowing how many will prove their ancestry.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones Humiliates UNC

Less than a week after the University of North Carolina board of trustees approved tenure for Nikole Hannah-Jones, the New York Times opinion journalist publicly humiliated her alma mater by accepting a competing offer from Howard University.

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Nikole Hannah-Jones And Ta-Nehisi Coates Join Howard University

‘We are at a critical juncture in our democracy’

What Woke’s Worth and Why

In early 2019, Ta-Nehisi Coates delivered the inaugural "Distinguished Diversity Lecture" at the Ohio State University. Coates’s hourlong engagement, which included a reading, a moderated conversation, and an audience Q&A, cost OSU $41,500.

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