Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Speaks at Sold-Out UVM Event
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Kymelya Sari
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November 7, 2018 at 9:15AM
The importance of voting, racism, the music of Marvin Gaye, his experience at his alma mater, Howard University, and the writings of James Baldwin were some of the topics that Coates discussed on election night during an hourlong talk moderated by Major Jackson, an English professor at UVM. Coates is a national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient and distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.