Though it is not easy, Coates gradually manages to make a successful career as a writer, all the while continuing to explore the questions that have troubled him as a young person. When he and Kenyatta are both 24, their son is born. He attends but does not graduate from Howard University, where he meets his partner, Kenyatta Matthews. Born to Paul Coates and Cheryl Waters in 1975, Coates grows up in West Baltimore during the crack epidemic, and his childhood is haunted by the dangers of the streets and by Coates’ unresolved questions about the injustices of the world, particularly those relating to the experience of black people in America. Ta-Nehisi Coates is both the author and the main character of the book, which is written in the first person and addresses Coates’ son, Samori.
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