Ta-Nehisi Coates

TA-NEHISI COATESTA-NEHISI COATESINTERVIEWMaking the case that the United States government owes black people for what it has done to them is an unlikely way to become a household name, but that ’s what Ta-Nehisi Coates did two years ago. “The Casefor Reparations” was the coverstory of the June 2014 issue of The Atlantic, and the publication says the piece brought more unique visitors to its site in a single day than any other magazine story it had ever run. Coates’s thorough defense of a revolut...