Ta-Nehisi Coates, Reparations
Advocate, Due At Glimmerglass
COOPERSTOWN – Best-selling author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose influential 2014 article in the Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations” was revisited last month in a New Yorker interview, will speak at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, at The Glimmerglass Festival’s Alice Busch Opera Theater.
The discussion will be moderated by Teresa Miller, the SUNY system’s chief diversity officer. A Q&A session follows the discussion.
Coates, national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine until earlier this summer, is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University.
