Ta-Nehisi Coates, THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Ta-Nehisi Coates about his memoir, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood. Coates grew up with his father, mother, siblings and half-siblings in an African American neighborhood in northwest Baltimore during the 1980’s. He was a kid when the crack epidemic hit Baltimore and sucked the life out of what had once been a thriving, intact, community. But then it changed and young black boys like Coates were faced with challenges that sent many of them over the cliff.

Ta-Nehisi Coates was luckier—he had a father who cared passionately about saving his boys, Ta-Nehisi and his older brother Bill, who were coming of age in the middle of the chaos.

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