Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American author, journalist, and activist who writes about race, white supremacy, and American history. He was a national correspondent at The Atlantic, and his book Between the World and Me won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has also written the Black Panther comic for Marvel, along with the novel The Water Dancer and the nonfiction books We Were Eight Years in Power and The Message. Coates received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2015.