Ta-Nehisi Coates, a writer, blogger, educator, and an authority on race in contemporary black America, spoke at the inaugural JHU Forum on Race in America, a new series of mixed-format discussions that provide a vehicle for critical analysis and dialogue on ways that race and racism affect American life and culture.
Coates, a Baltimore native and national correspondent for The Atlantic, is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, a memoir of growing up in Baltimore during the age of crack.
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