Episode 408: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Published: Sept. 3, 2020, 12:53 p.m.

b'Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author and journalist. He served as guest editor for the September issue of\\xa0Vanity Fair, titled\\xa0"The Great Fire."\\u201cThere\\u2019s this pressure to say something. Say something. The world\\u2019s burning, say something. But I try to stay where I\\u2019ve been or where I\\u2019ve tried to be in my career. ... Good things take time. You gotta let things cook. You can\\u2019t insta-bake something like this.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to\\xa0Mailchimp\\xa0for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow notes:\\n\\n\\xa0\\nta-nehisicoates.com\\nCoates on Longform\\nLongform Podcast #7: Ta-Nehisi Coates\\nLongform Podcast #97: Ta-Nehisi Coates\\nLongform Podcast #168: Ta-Nehisi Coates\\nLongform Podcast #225: Ta-Nehisi Coates\\nLongform Podcast #360: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Chris Jackson\\n1:00\\xa0"The Great Fire: A Special Issue, Edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates"\\xa0(Vanity Fair \\u2022 September 2020)\\n1:15\\xa0"On Witnessing and Respair: A Personal Tragedy Followed by Pandemic"\\xa0(Jesmyn Ward \\u2022 Vanity Fair \\u2022 September 2020)\\n1:15\\xa0"Blue Bloods: America\'s Brotherhood of Police Officers"\\xa0(Eve L. Ewing \\u2022 Vanity Fair \\u2022 September 2020)\\n1:30\\xa0"The Abolition Movement"\\xa0(Josie Duffy Rice \\u2022 Vanity Fair \\u2022 September 2020)\\n1:30\\xa0"College Football Players are Unpaid Stars on the Field \\u2013\\xa0And Have No Power Off It"\\xa0(Bomani Jones \\u2022 Vanity Fair \\u2022 September 2020)\\n1:45\\xa0"Amy Sherald on Making Breonna Taylor\'s Portrait"\\xa0(Miles Pope \\u2022 Vanity Fair \\u2022 September 2020)\\n7:00\\xa0The Apollo and The Atlantic Present Black Panther in Conversation: Featuring Chadwick Boseman and Ta-Nehisi Coates\\n9:30\\xa0\\u201cHe Was An Epic Firework Display\\u201d: Ryan Coogler on Chadwick Boseman\\n15:00\\xa0Longform Podcast #363: Radhika Jones\\n15:45\\xa0"\'I Am Still Called by the God I Serve to Walk This Out\' A conversation with Lucia McBath, mother of Jordan Davis" (The Atlantic \\u2022 February 2014)\\n20:30\\xa0"Mississippi: A Poem, In Days"\\xa0(Kiese Makeba Lamon \\u2022 Vanity Fair \\u2022 September 2020)\\n23:15\\xa0"The Life of Breonna Taylor Lived, in the Words of Her Mother"\\xa0(Ta-Nehisi Coates \\u2022 Photography by Latoya Ruby Frazier \\u2022 Vanity Fair \\u2022 September 2020)\\n26:00\\xa0Between the World and Me\\n27:45\\xa0"Viola Davis: \\u201cMy Entire Life Has Been a Protest"\\xa0(Sonia Saraiya \\u2022 Vanity Fair \\u2022 July/August 2020)\\n27:45\\xa0"Janelle Mon\\xe1e: Artist in Residence"\\xa0(Yohana Desta \\u2022 Vanity Fair \\u2022 May 2020)\\n27:45\\xa0"For the Love of Lupita Nyong\\u2019o"\\xa0(Kimberly Drew \\u2022 Vanity Fair \\u2022 September 2019)\\n44:00\\xa0"I\\u2019m Still Reading Andrew Sullivan. But I Can\\u2019t Defend Him."\\xa0(Ben Smith \\u2022 New York Times \\u2022 Aug 2020)\\n46:15\\xa0"Myths About Physical Racial Differences Were Used to Justify Slavery \\u2014 and are Still Believed by Doctors Today."\\xa0(Linda Villarosa \\u2022 New York Times Magazine \\u2022 August 2019)\\n\\n\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'