Good News

HBO gifted Howard University $1 million for the creation of an entertainment fellowship.

Coates’ New York Times bestseller will be adapted into a multimedia performance, with excerpted monologues, video projections, and a score by the jazz musician Jason Moran.

Nation

Journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates has nabbed another award. Yesterday evening, Coates received the National Book Award for Nonfiction for his poignant work about race in America called Between the World and Me. Coates dedicated his award to Prince Jones, an unarmed Howard University student who was murdered by a White police officer. “I’m a black […]

Nation

Between the World and Me, a novel penned by author Ta-Nehisi Coates, has been nominated for a National Book Award.

Dutch newspaper NRC is under scrutiny after publishing a review of Ta-Nehisi Coates' newest book with the headline, "Nigger Are You Crazy?