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Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • Bloc Like Me - November 2, 2004
    Gay marriage and abortion tug African Americans toward the Republican Party
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Lazy Bums - October 19, 2004
    When you're allergic to covering the issues, head for the sports cliché. We're going into overtime.
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Talking Point - October 12, 2004
    In the Spin Room, even the big dogs start barking—but that doesn't make it worth talking about
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Moderate Rock - October 5, 2004
    Enough with the news anchors running the debates—it's time to give Oprah a turn
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • See Bush Twitch - September 28, 2004
    The president thought he'd nixed those damaging reaction shots. The media had other ideas.
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Cheney Stops News Cycle Cold - September 28, 2004
    Veep's debate performance shifts headlines away from Bush's lousy show
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Black, White, Read - September 21, 2004
    News orgs are serving up the Sudan conflict as a race war. Sadly, it's not that simple.
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Brown-Skin Lady - September 14, 2004
    Suede magazine wants advertisers to see its true colors—and spend some real green
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Playing Trumps - September 7, 2004
    The Donald returns in magazine form, with Trump World—it's a glossy—set to hit the stands
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Daily Grind - August 31, 2004
    New York magazine's ambitious convention gamble breaks even—great big fancy ads help
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Let's Run the Tape - August 24, 2004
    A German TV network uses a marathoner to win the anti-convention footage race
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Four More Years? - August 17, 2004
    Bile for Bush fuels a boom in readers, advertising for lefty magazines
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Egotistical Bastards - August 10, 2004
    Dead mag helps VH1 talk about race, from Ice Cube to Elvis to Costello
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Sex, Lies, Death - August 3, 2004
    The irresistible pull of the down-low myth—uh, story—hooks reporters and their readers
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Helping the President Crank the Media Handle - August 3, 2004

    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • When Music Moguls Attack - July 27, 2004
    Russell Simmons gets high on Rockefeller—again
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Crouching Stanley, Hidden Gangsta - July 20, 2004
    Why the hanging judge can't keep his hands to himself
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Puff Piece - July 13, 2004
    Sean Combs issues an electoral ultimatum, with a side order of ego
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Block the Vote - July 6, 2004
    A modest proposal for shortening the lines on Election Day
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mushmouth Reconsidered - July 6, 2004
    You can't say that on TV—but Bill Cosby can
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • A Whiter Shade of Harlem - June 29, 2004
    They're building again in America's black mecca—but not necessarily with black labor
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Cosby Rips Into Black America Again - June 29, 2004

    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Doing It With R. Kelly - June 8, 2004
    Stripping the sexiness right out of sex
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • A Nation of Millions - June 1, 2004
    Hip-Hop Convention seeks answer to what's holding young America back
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Ebonics! Weird Names! $500 Shoes! - May 18, 2004
    Shrill Bill Cosby and the speech that shocked black America
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • An Ocean Apart - May 11, 2004
    Haitian leader returns black love to sender
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • She Held the Leash - May 4, 2004
    G.I. Jane in the Torture Room
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Brown v. Board of Education was a good thing—wasn't it? - May 4, 2004

    Books By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Old Enough to Vote? Old Enough to Die. - April 27, 2004
    Ready to serve?
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • A Fistful of Mighta Been - April 20, 2004
    How the Miramax of Music Soundbombed
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Jayson Blair Comes to Harlem - March 9, 2004
    Plagiarizing, Fabricating, Way, Way Fallen Black Dude Seeks Salvation on 125th
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Black for Blue - February 10, 2004
    Learning to Love Tha Police
    CityState By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Running From Race - February 3, 2004
    Democrats Are Ignoring Black Issues in Their Push for the White House. The Surprise Is Who Couldn't Care Less.
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • The Clinton Tease - January 13, 2004
    Clark Campaign Denies Dancing With Bill
    Features By Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Voting Rites - January 6, 2004
    Black Activists Look to New Strategies, Allies to Flex Ballot Power
    Nation By Ta-Nehisi Coates
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