Author Ta-Neishi Coates Wonders about the Church

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Author Ta-Neishi Coates Wonders about the Church

In his New York Times bestseller Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes a book length letter to his adolescent son, Samori. It's a brutally honest warning to his son about how hard it will be for him to grow up as an African-American male. "Racism," Coates writes, "is a visceral experience" which rips ...

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