Ta-Nehisi Coates Explores Oppression in 'The Message'

Published: Oct. 1, 2024, 6:18 p.m.

In his new book, Coates reflects on his time in Senegal, as well as trips he took to South Carolina and to Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank. "It is about the nationalisms of people who are told that they are nothing, that they are not a nation, that they are not a people ... and the stories that we construct to fight back against that," he says.

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