The author accepts the National Book Award for "Between the World and Me," and talks about the person who inspired it -- a friend who was mistaken for a criminal and killed by police.

While much of our "national discussion" of race is a shoutfest, Bill's taken a different approach to a tough subject.

There was much to admire at The New Republic, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes, but not its racist legacy.

In an encore broadcast, journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about the nation’s legacy of slavery and white supremacy.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "What clearly cannot be said is that violence—like nonviolence—sometimes works."

The unrest in Ferguson appears to be settling, but it prompted debates that continue.

We must remember the courage of the people of Mississippi and other Jim Crow states and that the civil rights movement was an endeavor of white and black bonding.

The wealth gap between blacks and whites is a legacy of hundred of years of African-Americans being excluded from the American Dream.

What is this Atlantic journalist asking white people to do when it comes to the past treatment of African-Americans? Coates answers in this clip.

The journalist explains how government housing policies led blacks into the arms of fraudulent mortgage lenders and whites to dump their homes in 1960s Chicago.