![]() In 2008 he published, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, a memoir about coming of age in West Baltimore. He has also published pieces in New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, and O. I cheered the day I found one of his essays in the New Yorker. I followed Ta-Nehisi as he wrote for the Washington City Paper, and then The Atlantic. I remember him as quiet and thoughtful and most strongly remember both of us intently learning from our writing elders, Kenny Carroll, Joel Dias Porter, Van Jordan, Jeffrey McDaniel and Brian Gilmore. For those of you who know DC, you will have some sense that those are very disparate places. ![]() WriterCorps placed writers in traditionally underserved communities to lead workshops, and Ta-Nehisi taught at Lorton Prison, Cardozo High School and the Lamond Riggs Library. ![]() I first met Ta-Nehisi Coates 20 years ago, when we were two of the youngest members of WriterCorps, in Washington DC. ![]() On October 29, SAL Executive Director Ruth Dickey introduced Ta-Nehisi Coates to the resounding applause of a sold-out crowd at McCaw Hall, for SAL’s 2015/16 Literary Arts Series. Introductions: Ta-Nehisi Coates November 10, 2015 ![]()
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