‘Rethinking Race in America with Ta-Nehisi Coates’ rescheduled for March 27

Ta-Nehisi Coates, national correspondent for The Atlantic who has written widely about the nation’s racial issues, will speak at Yale on Friday, March 27 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. This event was originally slated to take place in February, but had to be rescheduled.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, national correspondent for The Atlantic who has written widely about the nation’s racial issues, will speak at Yale on Friday, March 27 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. This event was originally slated to take place in February, but had to be rescheduled.

“Rethinking Race in America with Ta-Nehisi Coates” will take place at 7 p.m. in Rm. 114 of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall, 1 Prospect St. The event — co-sponsored by the Yale College Dean’s Office, the Office of the President and the Department of African American Studies — is free and open to the public.

Coates wrote a memoir titled “The Beautiful Struggle” in 2008, in which he described his childhood in Baltimore, the influence of his Black Panther father, his troubled experiences attending Baltimore area schools, and the street crime of the era and its effect on his brother.

Coates is currently a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he writes feature articles and maintains a blog, addressing issues that include politics, history, race, culture and sports, and music. His articles on race, such as his Atlantic cover piece from September 2012 titled “Fear of a Black President” and his June 2014 feature titled “The Case for Reparations” have been especially lauded and garnered Coates a place on the Best Blog of 2011 list by Time magazine as well as winning him the 2012 Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism from the Sidney Hillman Foundation.  In addition to the actual content, Coates’ blog has also been praised for its comments section, which he curates and moderates heavily.

Ta-Nehisi Coates was the 2012-2013 MLK visiting professor for writing at MIT and a guest columnist for The New York Times, having turned down its offer to become a regular columnist.

The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism was established by Nelson Poynter, who received his master’s degree in 1927 from Yale. The fellowship brings to campus journalists from a wide variety of media outlets who have made significant contributions to their field. Among recent Poynter fellows are Janet Mock, Seymour Hersh, and Susan Pinker.

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