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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Why Whites Like His Writing

Race in America

‘The history is what the history is. And it is disrespectful, to white people, to soften the history.’

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“Why do you think that so many white people love what you write?” asked the award-winning New York Times Magazine journalist, Nikole Hannah-Jones, during a sold-out discussion at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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