Ta-Nehisi Coates

Did Kamala Harris's Silence on Gaza Cost Her the White House?

Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.

Letter to My Son

<span>“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—<em>it is heritage</em>.”</span>

The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.<span> </span>

The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

Other People's Pathologies

Black culture and the culture of poverty are not the same thing.

My President Was Black

A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next