On Being with Krista Tippett

[Unedited] Ta-Nehisi Coates with Krista Tippett

09.12.2019 - By On Being StudiosPlay

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Ta-Nehisi Coates says we must love our country the way we love our friends — and not spare the hard truths. “Can you get to a place where citizens are encouraged to see themselves critically, where they’re encouraged to see their history critically?” he asks. Coates is a poetic journalist and a defining voice of our times. He’s with us in a conversation that is joyful, hard, kind, soaring, and down-to-earth all at once. He spoke with Krista as part of the 2017 Chicago Humanities Festival.

This interview originally aired in November 2017.

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