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Personal life
Coates was raised in a working-class family in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, William Paul Coates, was a Vietnam veteran and former Black Panther. His mother, Cheryl, was the breadwinner in the family and his father was a stay-at-home dad where he ran a small publishing house during Ta-Nehisi's childhood. Ta-Nehisi's father had seven children. Ta-Nehisi is an Egyptian name for ancient Nubia.

Coates attended a number of Baltimore-area schools, including Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, before graduating from Woodlawn High School. After high school, he enrolled in Howard University but dropped out to become a journalist. He currently resides in Harlem with his wife and son.

Writing and teaching
In 2009, he published The Beautiful Struggle, a memoir about coming of age in West Baltimore and its impact on him. In it, he discusses the influence of his father, a former Black Panther; the prevailing street crime of the era and its effects on his older brother; his own experience attending Baltimore-area schools, which included by his own later account "two suspensions, two expulsions, and an arrest by school police"; and his eventual graduation and enrollment in "Mecca", as he refers to Howard University.

Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he maintains a blog as well as contributing feature articles. Topics covered by the blog include issues of race, politics, education, and legal issues, as well as culture, sports, and music. He often uses his own experiences as background for his commentary. His writing on race, such as his September 2012 Atlantic cover piece "Fear of a Black President",  have been especially praised, and have won his blog a place on the Best Blogs of 2011 list by TIME Magazine. and the 2012 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism from The Sidney Hillman Foundation. Coates' blog has also been praised for its engaging comments section, which Coates curates and moderates heavily so that, "the jerks are invited to leave [and] the grown-ups to stay and chime in".

Coates is the 2012-13 MLK visiting professor for writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a guest columnist for the New York Times, having turned down an offer from them to become a regular columnist. He has also written for The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, Time, The Washington Post, the Washington Monthly and O magazine.

Personal life
Coates was raised in a working-class family in Baltimore, Maryland. His father, William Paul Coates, was a Vietnam veteran and former Black Panther. His mother, Cheryl, was the breadwinner in the family and his father was a stay-at-home dad where he ran a small publishing house during Ta-Nehisi's childhood. Ta-Nehisi's father had seven children. Ta-Nehisi is an Egyptian name for ancient Nubia.

Coates attended a number of Baltimore-area schools. He enrolled in Howard University but dropped out to become a journalist. He currently resides in Harlem with his wife and son.

Writing and teaching
In 2009, he published The Beautiful Struggle, a memoir about coming of age in West Baltimore. In it, he discusses the influence of his father, a former Black Panther; the prevailing street crime of the era and its effects on his older brother; as well as the significance of his own experiences attending Baltimore-area schools, including "two suspensions, two expulsions, and an arrest by school police" that he cites as influential; and his eventual graduation and enrollment in Howard University.

Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he maintains a blog as well as contributing feature articles. Topics covered by the blog include issues of race, politics, education, and legal issues, as well as culture, sports, and music. He often uses his own experiences as background for his commentary. His writing on race, such as his September 2012 Atlantic cover piece "Fear of a Black President",  have been especially praised, and have won his blog a place on the Best Blogs of 2011 list by TIME Magazine. and the 2012 Hillman Prize for Opinion & Analysis Journalism from The Sidney Hillman Foundation. Coates' blog has also been praised for its engaging comments section, which Coates curates and moderates heavily so that, "the jerks are invited to leave [and] the grown-ups to stay and chime in".

Coates is the 2012-13 MLK visiting professor for writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a guest columnist for the New York Times, having turned down an offer from them to become a regular columnist. He has also written for The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, Time, The Washington Post, the Washington Monthly and O magazine.