Ta-Nehisi Coates wins MacArthur 'genius' grant
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Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of 24 people selected for this year's "genius grants" from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced Tuesday.
Coates, the author of "Between the World and Me," is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about cultural, political and social issues, most prominently racial issues. Recipients receive $625,000 over five years to continue work in their respective fields. Other winners include playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, puppeteer Basil Twist, poet Ellen Bryan Voigt and writer Ben Lerner.
“I wished I could be cool,” Coates told The New York Times. “But you just can’t be cool."
"The Case for Reparations," Coates' 2014 centerpiece essay on the state of race relations in the United States, prompted a frenzy of online discussion and debate over the legacy of slavery and institutional racism in America.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/2015-macarthur-genius-grant-winners-ta-nehisi-coates-214194#ixzz3nCEhir00
See also http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-for-2015-are-announced.html?mabReward=A4&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0
Coates, the author of "Between the World and Me," is a national correspondent for The Atlantic, where he writes about cultural, political and social issues, most prominently racial issues. Recipients receive $625,000 over five years to continue work in their respective fields. Other winners include playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, puppeteer Basil Twist, poet Ellen Bryan Voigt and writer Ben Lerner.
“I wished I could be cool,” Coates told The New York Times. “But you just can’t be cool."
"The Case for Reparations," Coates' 2014 centerpiece essay on the state of race relations in the United States, prompted a frenzy of online discussion and debate over the legacy of slavery and institutional racism in America.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/2015-macarthur-genius-grant-winners-ta-nehisi-coates-214194#ixzz3nCEhir00
See also http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-for-2015-are-announced.html?mabReward=A4&action=click&pgtype=Homepage®ion=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine&_r=0
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Coates is a good writer, agree with him on a lot except some of his remedies are not realistic or feasible
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i love him.
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Bmore stand up!
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Why the hell would a puppeteer win a grant like this?
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MarcusGarvey wrote: »Coates is a good writer, agree with him on a lot except some of his remedies are not realistic or feasible
Not necessarily
The status quo is unsustainable
Maybe I'm being naive...
But I'm sure our ancestors couldn't conceive of their great grand children being free let alone be walking the halls of the White House or attending institutions such as Harvard either
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never heard of him, imam check out his work. with a name like that I thought it was a girl
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I Take Genius Over Cool Any Day
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detcatinva wrote: »never heard of him, imam check out his work. with a name like that I thought it was a girl
The name is the Egyptian word for Nubia.
