Ta-Nehisi Coates, Environmental Prophet

I was inspired and challenged by Ta-Nehisi Coates’ public lecture this week at the University of Detroit Mercy. Based on his most recent book Between the World and Me, winner of the 2015 National Book Award, Coates presented an efficient and highly effective argument that America is based on a false idea of race and built on the plunder of black bodies. Implicit in this living lie and ongoing injustice is “the Dream” – Coates’... Read more →