Hi there,

The climate crisis, war, attacks on reproductive rights, book bans—these threats aren't looming. They are here now. If you think Democracy Now!'s reporting on these issues is essential, please sign up for a monthly gift of $10 or more. Right now, a generous donor will DOUBLE your gift, making your donation twice as valuable. We don't have a paywall or run ads, which means we’re not brought to you by the oil, gas, coal, or nuclear companies when we cover the climate catastrophe or by the weapons manufacturers when we cover war. Democracy Now! is funded by you and that’s why we need your help today. This is a challenging year for news organizations and nonprofits across the board, so please don’t close this window before making your gift. We're counting on you more than ever to sustain our reporting. Start your monthly donation of $10 or more right now and help Democracy Now! stay strong and independent all year round. Thank you so much.
-Amy Goodman

Non-commercial news needs your support.

We rely on contributions from you, our viewers and listeners to do our work. If you visit us daily or weekly or even just once a month, now is a great time to make your monthly contribution.

Please do your part today.

Donate

2015 MacArthur “Genius” Award Winner Ta-Nehisi Coates on Democracy Now!

Web ExclusiveSeptember 29, 2015
Related

    Best-selling writer Ta-Nehisi Coates has been selected as one of this year’s 24 winners of the MacArthur genius grants. Coates is the author of the new book, “Between the World and Me,” which has been called “required reading” by Toni Morrison.

    Other winners include Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer and star of the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton”; Gary Cohen, an environmental health activist; and Juan Salgado, a Chicago-based immigrant rights organizer.

    Democracy Now! has featured Ta-Nehisi Coates several times over the past year.

    'Between the World and Me': Ta-Nehisi Coates Extended Interview on Being Black in America

    Ta-Nehisi Coates on Police Brutality: 'The Violence is Not New, It's the Cameras That are New’

    The Case for Reparations: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Reckoning with U.S. Slavery & Institutional Racism

    Part 2: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Segregation, Housing Discrimination and 'The Case for Reparations'

    Related Story

    StorySep 14, 2023Naomi Klein on Her New Book “Doppelganger” & How Conspiracy Culture Benefits Ruling Elite
    The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

    Non-commercial news needs your support

    We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
    Please do your part today.
    Make a donation
    Top