One sentence is all it takes to understand writer Ta-Nehisi Coates’ views on Israel. “On the last day of my trip to Palestine, I visited Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center ...

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates suggested Wednesday he would have taken part in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack against Israel based on the “oppression" Gazans face.

Anti-racist polemicist Ta-Nehisi Coates says he doesn’t know if he would have been “strong enough’’ to not join in the Oct. 7 massacre if he grew up in Gaza.

Ezra Klein spoke to author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who has sparked fierce debate in recent weeks with his new book of essays, “The Message.” The post ‘I Just Don’t Want to Hear’ It: Ta-Nehisi ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates shared his views on the coming election while recounting his trip to the West Bank folded in his book "The Message." Ta-Nehisi Coates says he'll likely vote for Kamala Harris.

Coates himself provides a moving example of the lure of vindicationism in the best essay in “The Message,” “On Pharaohs.” When he traveled to Dakar, Senegal, he recounts, ...

Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates says he long felt the pull to visit Africa — and yet it was a trip he kept putting off. "When you're Black in this country, Africa — or the story that's told about ...

In “The Message,” Coates grapples with questions about which stories are told, and how, through his visits to Senegal, South Carolina and the West Bank. By Anderson Tepper Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ...

Coates sees Israel's treatment of Palestinians today as analogous to the injustices suffered by African Americans in the U.S. But the truth about the conflict is much more complex, ...