Articles Tagged ‘ beautiful struggle ’

Ta-Nehisi Coates, THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE

June 15th, 2008

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with Ta-Nehisi Coates about his memoir, . 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, [...]