• Ta-Nehisi Coates (‘The Message’) is Live in Los Angeles

  • Nov 3 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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Ta-Nehisi Coates (‘The Message’) is Live in Los Angeles

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  • On the heels of his latest book The Message, author Ta-Nehisi Coates joins Sam for a conversation in Los Angeles.

    At the top, we discuss how his Atlantic piece The Case for Reparations guided these three new essays (6:10), Coates’ early education growing up in West Baltimore (14:57), and his powerful dispatches from South Carolina (22:00) and the Middle East (29:30).

    On the back-half, Coates unpacks why he believes the mainstream media prioritizes “factual complexity over self-evident morality” (37:47), his advocacy for Palestinian journalists (39:20), and his reflections about the U.S. election (47:28). To close, a formative passage from James Baldwin's The Lost Generation (52:38) and a story about love and writing (57:45).

    Thoughts or future guest ideas? Email us at sf@talkeasypod.com.

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