HBO’s Confederate takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?įour Atlantic staffers discuss the Netflix show’s portrayal of a group of black students at a mostly white elite university. The foundation of Donald Trump’s presidency is the negation of Barack Obama’s legacy. Jesse Draxler Photo: David Hume Kennerly / Getty Tynesha Foreman, Nicolas Pollock, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg.Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how the 2016 election was a reaction to Obama’s presidency. ‘It’s Impossible to Imagine Trump Without the Force of Whiteness'.Are We Ready to Talk About How He Got In?įive Books to Make You Less Stupid About the Civil WarĬivil-Rights Protests Have Never Been PopularĪctivists can’t persuade their contemporaries-they’re aiming at the next generation. Tony Judt said that there is darkness in this world, and that darkness often triumphed-and liberated me to do the same.ĭonald Trump Is Out. At The Atlantic, Coates was known for his reporting on politics and race, including his 2014 article “ The Case for Reparations.” Prior to his time at The Atlantic, Coates worked for publications such as The Village Voice and Time, and in 2015, he received a MacArthur fellowship.
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