What is Ta-Nehisi Coates?
{{use mdy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox person | image = Ta-Nehisi Coates.jpg | alt = A low-level view of Coates onstage wearing a suit | caption = Coates delivering the keynote speech at the [[University of Virginia]]'s 2015 Community Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration in 2015 | birth_name = Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1975|9|30}} | birth_place = [[Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], U.S. | education = [[Howard University]] | occupation = {{flatlist| * Writer * journalist }} | years_active = | parents = Cheryl Lynn Coates (née Waters) <br />[[Paul Coates (publisher)|William Paul Coates]] | spouse = Kenyatta Matthews | children = 1 | awards = {{unbulleted list|2014 [[George Polk Award]] for commentary|2015 [[MacArthur Fellows Program]]|2015 [[National Book Award for Nonfiction]]}} | website = {{official URL|https://ta-nehisicoates.com/}} }} '''Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates''' (born September 30, 1975) is an [[Americans|American]] [[writer]], [[journalist]] and [[Graphic novel|graphic novelist]]. Coates was born in [[Baltimore, Maryland]]. He went to [[Howard University]] in [[Washington, D. C.]]. After college he wrote for many different [[Publication|publications]], including the ''[[Village Voice]]'', ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', and ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021|title=Coates, Ta-Nehisi|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191872112.001.0001/acref-9780191872112-e-310|access-date=January 30, 2023|website=Oxford Reference - The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature}}</ref> He was a regular writer for ''[[The Atlantic]]'' from 2008 until 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Fortin|first=Jacey|date=2018-07-21|title=Ta-Nehisi Coates Is Leaving The Atlantic|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/business/media/ta-nehisi-coates-atlantic.html|access-date=2023-01-30|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 2014, Coates wrote an [[essay]] that was read and tal