Comedian Trevor Noah expressed outrage against CBS News on his podcast Thursday with author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who was questioned by CBS’ Tony Dokoupil this week about his extremist views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates openly wondered if he would be “strong enough” to resist the kind of violence exhibited by the terrorist organization Hamas in Israel on October 7 were he to grow up as a Palestinian living in Gaza.
Antisemites and Democrats sure got it good… Especially at CBS.
Dokoupil is even under fire by his own network, where the Coates’ interview caused so much trauma among CBS staffers that a “mental health expert DEI strategist and trauma trainer” has been called in to mediate.
CBS News bosses knocked reporter Tony Dokoupil for asking left-leaning author and social justice activist Ta-Nehisi Coates tough questions.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to stop the “dehumanization of Palestinians” by refusing to let them speak on stage.
Two-time failed Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is set to join the faculty of Howard University, where she will be the inaugural Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics.
Conservative philosopher and writer Jordan Peterson has responded to Marvel comics parodying him as “a magical super-Nazi,” the classic Captain America villain Red Skull.
Conservative thinker Jordan Peterson was shocked to discover that Marvel Comics had assigned his ideals to the evil villain Red Skull.
Justice League cast member Ray Fisher is accusing WarnerMedia of an empty PR stunt by bringing on activist writer Ta-Nehisi Coates to pen a Superman reboot.
Warner Bros. is reportedly prepping another reboot of DC comics’ Superman, this time with slavery reparations advocate, author, and Marvel comic book writer Ta-Nehisi Coates teaming with powerhouse producer J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot production company for the feature film, Deadline reports.
Marxist activist Angela Davis is warning that the street demonstrations currently rocking cities around the country are just the early stages of a larger “revolution” that is needed to bring about lasting radical social and economic change.
The New York Times’ editorial page editor who resigned Sunday after the newspaper disowned an opinion piece by U.S. Senator Tom Cotton was the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic magazine when it published “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
NEW YORK (AP) — Ta-Nehisi Coates’ first novel, “The Water Dancer,” has been a long and eventful journey.
A day after co-sponsoring a “climate equity” bill with Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said the jury is still out on the presidential candidate.
Author and left-wing activist Ta-Nehisi Coates declared this week that former Vice President Joe Biden “shouldn’t be president.”
Hollywood actor and left-wing activist Danny Glover on Wednesday testified before Congress that instituting a national policy on reparations for descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States is a “moral, democratic, and economic imperative.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The topic of reparations for slavery is headed to Capitol Hill for its first hearing in more than a decade with writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and actor Danny Glover set to testify before a House panel.
A House Judiciary subcommittee will hold hearings on reparations next Wednesday, marking the first time in more than a decade that the House will discuss potentially compensating the descendants of slaves.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of “The Case for Reparations,” praised Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the New Yorker on Monday as a 2020 Democrat who is not just giving “lip service on reparations,” revealing that Warren had asked him about five years ago to have a conversation with her about his reparations piece.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations” author, this week warned Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) and former Vice President Joe Biden that they will have to deal with their criminal justice “baggage” in the 2020 presidential election cycle.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said on Monday that a world that allows billionaires is immoral.
Kanye West is not talking politics or policy or right or left. What he is talking about is freedom, specifically intellectual freedom, which is even more important than supporting MAGA.
Marvel Comics has canceled its Black Lives Matter-inspired comic book Black Panther & The Crew due to poor sales, according to reports.
Hugh Hefner, the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy, has penned an essay in the magazine’s latest (nude-free) issue, declaring victory over conservative Republicans in the decades-long struggle since the sexual revolution began in the 1960s.
President Obama praised pop queen Beyoncé and television showrunner Shonda Rhimes as just two examples of how far African-Americans have progressed in the United States since the Civil Rights movement during his commencement address at Howard University on Saturday.
It is a strange election cycle when Republicans go to war with each other with a ferocity rarely manifest when they are confronting Democrats and their progressive agendas.
Both Democratic candidates seeking the presidential nomination were desperately fighting for the black vote on Wednesday, ahead of the upcoming South Carolina primary. Bernie Sanders is attempting to continue the momentum from his massive victory in New Hampshire, while Hillary Clinton is hoping that the South Carolina primary on February 27th becomes a firewall that helps shut down Bernie Sanders.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, a far-left writer and a famous national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine, has endorsed socialist Bernie Sanders for president.
As Bernie Sanders attempts to gain the black vote in his quest for the Democratic presidential nomination, he is encountering resistance from some radical black activists for his recent statements opposing reparations for slavery and his vote as a congressman to extradite Black Lives Matter hero, the convicted terrorist murder Assata Shakur.
A study from The University of Chicago revealed that 47 percent of 20 to 24-year-old black males in Chicago were out of school and out of work in 2014.
Hillary Clinton is one bad South Carolina poll away from a full-scale embrace of radical racial insanity.
The Atlantic National Correspondent and author Ta-Nehisi Coates stated that Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) decision to “dismiss reparations, simply because it is not politically doable” “felt completely off” and that Sanders should put forward things that he
Author Ta-Nehisi Coates has written some controversial pieces for the Atlantic, including one defending reparations for slavery and another arguing the public shift on the Trayvon Martin case was based on opposition to President Obama. Next year, Coates will become a different kind of author when takes on a year-long story about Black Panther, the first mainstream black superhero, for Marvel comics.
On Wednesday, new James Bond author Anthony Horowitz told The Daily Mail (UK) that he didn’t think Idris Elba, star of Luther and The Wire, would be a good fit for Bond.
The political scientist Wallace Sayre is quoted as saying that “academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” A bitter online fight that erupted this week between scholar Cornel West and Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates offers the latest illustration.
From The Atlantic: Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. Roof’s crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of white supremacy which long animated his state nor from its
In a piece published yesterday, Ta-Nehisi Coates argues that police are used as a backstop of force to deal with social problems they are ill-equipped to handle. But in making this case, Coates makes the perfect the enemy of the good, choosing systemic solutions he never even articulates over the practical one most people already agree on: body cameras.
