Richard Prince's Journal-isms™ :: Ta-Nehisi Coates, the national correspondent of The Atlantic whose explorations of race have also made him a bestselling author, is among 24 Americans named Tuesday as winners of a MacArthur Fellowship, known as "the genius grant."
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[MacArthur Foundation] described Coates as "a journalist, blogger, and memoirist who brings personal reflection and historical scholarship to bear on America's most contested issues. Writing without shallow polemic and in a measured style, Coates addresses complex and challenging issues such as racial identity, systemic racial bias, and urban policing. He subtly embeds the present — in the form of anecdotes about himself or others — into historical analysis in order to illustrate how the implications of the past are still experienced by people today."
What great news for an amazing young man and author. Congratulations!