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The Office of the Provost and Dean of Faculties will host an April 13 campus appearance by Atlantic senior writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, who will speak on “The Case for Reparations,” the subject of his cover story in last June’s Atlantic.
Coates’ talk, which is free and open to the public, takes place at 7 p.m. in the Yawkey Center Murray Room.
The author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, Coates reignited the long-dormant national conversation of how to effectively repay African-Americans for economic, social and other hardships as a result of institutional racism. Financial compensation, he said, is a part of the redress -– but openly admitting to, and apologizing for, the injustice is critical to the process of resolving racial problems in the US.
Coates is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and Washington Post, among other publications, and has worked for the Village Voice and Time. He maintains a widely acclaimed blog for the Atlantic [www.theatlantic.com/ta-nehisi-coates].