Ta-Nehisi Coates On White Supremacy And A Life Of Struggle

Ta-Nehisi Coates On White Supremacy And A Life Of Struggle
ASPEN, CO - JULY 01: Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks during the film screening and discussion of 'Sing Your Song' at the Aspen Institute's Aspen Ideas Festival 2011 at the Paepcke Auditorium on July 1, 2011 in Aspen, Colorado. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)
ASPEN, CO - JULY 01: Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks during the film screening and discussion of 'Sing Your Song' at the Aspen Institute's Aspen Ideas Festival 2011 at the Paepcke Auditorium on July 1, 2011 in Aspen, Colorado. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images)

This year we selected writer Ta-Nehisi Coates as the top honoree on The Root 100, our annual list of influential and high-achieving African Americans. It was June when The Atlantic published his widely read and highly acclaimed cover article, “The Case for Reparations,” which “lays bare a compelling argument for the pecuniary redress of Africans brought to this country in chains and continually terrorized—socially, politically and economically.”

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