LIVE from NYPL: Ta-Nehisi Coates | Khalil Gibran Muhammad - SOLD OUT

Acclaim for Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller, Between the World and Me, spread far and wide during the summer of 2015, and for good reason: Toni Morrison said that Coates “fill[s] the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died.” In a moment full of injustice but countered by just as much resilience, Coates’ voice is at the forefront. He is joined by MSNBC's Chris Hayes in conversation about the book and the broader cultural moment. 

 

TA-NEHISI COATES is a National Correspondent for The Atlantic and the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. Coates has received The National Magazine Award, the Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis Journalism, and the George Polk Award for his Atlantic cover story, "The Case for Reparations." He is currently living in Paris.

KHALIL GIBRAN MUHAMMAD is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and a Visiting Professor at The CUNY Graduate Center. He holds a doctorate in US history from Rutgers University and is a former associate professor of history at Indiana University. He is a contributor to a 2014 National Research Council study, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences, and is the author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Harvard), which won the 2011 John Hope Franklin Best Book award in American Studies. His research focuses on racial criminalization in modern U.S. History and has been featured in a number of national print and broadcast media outlets, including the New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, Moyers and Company, and MSNBC. He is a former associate editor of The Journal of American History and prior Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice.

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