“The Water Dancer” comes out of a powerful examination of the legacies of slavery today.

Why does he think Republicans will work with him after they obstructed Obama for eight years? His praise of a segregationist offers a clue.

In a rebuttal to Mitch McConnell—and possibly Joe Biden—Ta-Nehisi Coates helped House Democrats start a conversation on slavery, racism, and reparations.

How a campaign slogan captures the promise and impatience of today's Democratic Party

The writer's critics call him a cynic. But as a new anthology shows, his thinking has matured in subtle ways over the years.

The history of racism and exclusion in the United States is the history of whiteness.

I never expected to see people like myself in positions of power. Then Obama came along.

I won't manage your emotions. I want you to understand my perspective.

Ta-Nehisi Coates takes on one of Marvel's iconic superheroes, reinvigorating the Black Panther for a new generation.

The author’s new project uses his journalistic sensibility to reinvent an established character.

An emerging black digital intelligentsia has embraced online technology to change American ideas

David Carr's Washington City Paper shaped two of America’s preeminent black writers

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” is a letter to his son, and a lesson for us all