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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates review – a politically-charged meditation on the power of stories

Travels to Senegal and the West Bank shed light on how we think about race, censorship and oppression

The Guardian - UK

Percival Everett wins National Book Award for fiction with retelling of Huckleberry Finn

Everett’s novel, James, which focuses on Twain's enslaved character Jim, won the $10,000 prize

The Guardian - AU

Literary body defends award for father of Ta-Nehisi Coates after accusations of republishing antisemitic work

National Book Foundation said it ‘supports freedom of expression‘

The Independent UK

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Ta-Nehisi Coates describes what he saw in Palestine as ‘apartheid’, resembling America’s segregated Jim Crow South

In May 2023, renowned Black American writer Ta-Nehisi Coates spent ten days in the West Bank and Israel, where he spent half his time with Breaking the Silence, a group of former Israeli soldiers who now oppose the occupation.

The Conversation

‘I don’t have much hope for a Harris presidency’: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Israeli apartheid and what the media gets wrong about Palestine

One of the most penetrating critics of US racism discusses the reception to his new book and why talking about Palestine offered him a way to understand the world

The Guardian - US

CBS interview creates Paramount rift

Tony Dokoupil sparred with Coates in a tense interview around the author's account of the war in Gaza

Salon

CBS Needs a Safe Space for Tony Dokoupil's Critics

Despite the outrage from woke staffers, Ta-Nehisi Coates is hardly upset about the interview.

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When is an interview too tough? CBS News grappling with question after Dokoupil interview

Television morning show interviews often don't stray beyond celebrities and food segments

The Independent UK

CBS executives ‘admit heated Ta-Nehisi Coates interview on Gaza did not meet standards’ after backlash

‘CBS Mornings’ co-anchor Tony Dokoupil compared Coates’s new book to ‘extremist’ writings – prompting online backlash

The Independent UK

Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on Oct. 7

Ta-Nehisi Coates seeks to return America to moral clarity

Salon

Revisiting Middletown, Ohio – the Midwestern town at the heart of JD Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy’

With Sen. JD Vance named Donald Trump’s running mate, commentators are dusting off Vance’s 2016 memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” to explain America’s political moment.

The Conversation

Ta-Nehisi Coates returns to nonfiction and explores the power of stories in upcoming 'The Message'

For his first all-new book of nonfiction in nearly a decade, Ta-Nehisi Coates traveled the world

The Independent UK

After 3 years with no update, James Gunn reveals Ta-Nehisi Coates' Superman movie is still in development

The film will exist outside of the DCU

Total Film

Ta-Nehisi Coates spearheads new fund combatting sexual violence

Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates is teaming up with two nonprofits to launch a new fund that will make awards to champions of sexual violence prevention and that will support education and healing programs, predominantly for Black women and girls, with plans to raise $10 million over the next two…

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The Guardian - US

‘People are being penalised’: Hollywood divided over Israel-Hamas conflict

Stars like Susan Sarandon and Cynthia Nixon are raising their voices in support of Palestine, but many others are paying a steep price for speaking up

The Independent UK

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates gives silent support to a teacher told to stop using his book on racism

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates sat silently through a school board meeting in South Carolina to support a high school teacher told to stop using his book on racism and growing up Black in America in her advanced English class

Inverse

Letitia Wright Has a Wild Pitch for 'Black Panther 3'

Princess Shuri takes on a whole new role in the Marvel comics.

Total Film

JJ Abrams and Ta-Nehisi Coates' Superman movie could still happen, says James Gunn

The DC Films co-CEO says his Superman reboot movie doesn't exclue the possibility of Elseworlds films featuring the Man of Steel

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Reparations for Black Residents Would Cost California $800 Billion, Say Economists

This total is 2.5 times the state's annual budget.

Los Angeles Times

Robin Abcarian: Kids deserve to know the truth about America's racist past. Even if it's painful

Last month, school officials in St. Petersburg, Florida, told teachers to stop showing students a Disney movie about Ruby Bridges, the 6-year-old Black girl who integrated an all-white New Orleans elementary school in the 1960s.

The Guardian - US

Banning ideas and authors is not a ‘culture war’ – it’s fascism

The media’s framing of measures like Florida’s African American studies ban is a dangerous falsification of reality

The Guardian - US

‘Cowering to politics’: how AP African American studies became the most controversial course in the US

After Florida’s governor vowed to block the class, a revised version – with key writings removed – sparked swift backlash

The Guardian - UK

Beneath the skin of our obsession with whiteness lie deeper fears about our place in the world

Anti-racists fear racism will never be conquered, while racists still nurse a sense of loss and pride

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 21st-century fantasy novels

In recent decades, the best world-building fiction has begun to shed its roots in European mythology in favour of new ways to challenge the limits of the real

WEKU

How one book influencer championing Black authors is changing publishing

Milwaukee-based book influencer Cree Myles curates an account for Penguin Random House dedicated to celebrating Black writers.

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