Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Attends School Board Meeting To Support Teacher Banned From Using His Book On Race In Class

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Attends School Board Meeting To Support Teacher Banned From Using His Book On Race In Class

Essence Magazine:

Nurphoto/ Getty Images By Melissa Noel ·Updated July 20, 2023

Acclaimed author Ta-Nehisi Coates attended a meeting in South Carolina where a local school board debated whether his award-winning book on growing up Black in America should be banned from classrooms. 

Coates sat silently through the

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