Ta-Nehisi Coates

TaNehisi Paul Coates ˌtɑːnəˈhɑːsiTAHnəHAHsee born September 30 1975 is an American author journalist and activist He gained a wide readership as a national correspondent at The Atlantic where he wrote about cultural social and political issues particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy In 2015 Coates received a MacArthur Fellowship from the MacArthur Foundation His work has been published in numerous periodicals He has published four nonfiction books The Beautiful Struggle2008 Between the World and Me2015 We Were Eight Years in Power An American Tragedy 2017 and The Message 2024 Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction He has also written a Black Panther and Captain America series for Marvel Comics His first novel The Water Dancer was published in 2019 Description above from the Wikipedia article TaNehisi Coates licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia