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- Reach:12.1
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Ta-Nehisi Coates #37
- Editor's blog is named one of
Time magazine's best blogs of the year.
- Job: Senior editor,
the Atlantic
- Sector: Entertainment/Media
- Twitter:tanehisi
- Location: New York City
- Age: 36
- Bio:
With
his writing voice having been shaped partly by his father, a former Black
Panther and Vietnam veteran, Ta-Nehisi
Coates dropped out of Howard University to pursue journalism. Now, besides
serving as senior editor for the
Atlantic, Coates has authored a memoir, The
Beautiful Struggle:
A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, and runs a blog, Ta-Nehisi News,
which was named one of Time magazine's Best Blogs of 2011. Coates is also
working on a novel about an interracial family in pre-Civil War
Virginia.
Watch
his videos.