A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nearly every seat in the Heller Auditorium was filled this week when award-winning author, journalist, comic book writer and educator Ta-Nehisi Coates took the stage for a public conversation with WBEZ correspondent Natalie Moore about his new book We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy.

Part memoir, part polemic, We Were Eight Years in Power features Coates’s iconic first essays from The Atlantic, “Fear of a Black President,” “The Case for Reparations” and “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates’s own experiences, observations and intellectual development.

Those who attended the event had the opportunity to ask questions of Coates and Moore following their conversation (featured in the video below), and each left with a copy of his new book as a reminder of the event.

Many thanks to the Family Action Network for working in partnership with the school to bring events like this to Parker!

Click here for photos from this event.