Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Birth : 1975-09-30, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

History

Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates is an American author and journalist. Coates gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social, and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy.

Profile

Ta-Nehisi Coates
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Movies

Between the World and Me
Executive Producer
Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
Between the World and Me
Writer
Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
Between the World and Me
Self
Based on Ta-Nehisi Coates’ #1 New York Times bestseller and originally adapted and staged by the Apollo Theater, this special combines elements of that production - including powerful readings from Coates’ book - with documentary footage from the actors’ home life, archival footage, and animation.
Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute for a King
Self - Author and Journalist
A tribute to Chadwick Boseman, celebrating his life and legacy.
Black Panther
Thanks
King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
Self
A documentary about how a dominant cultural and demographic institution both sustains their traditional activities and adapts to the digital revolution.
Untitled Superman Project
Writer
An Elseworlds-style take on the last son of Krypton.
The Water Dancer
Producer
In the pre–Civil War South, Hiram Walker, born into slavery, who lost his mother as a child and over time loses all memory of her. As a young man, Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but he’s saved from the depths by a mysterious power he never realized he had and struggles to understand.
The Water Dancer
Writer
In the pre–Civil War South, Hiram Walker, born into slavery, who lost his mother as a child and over time loses all memory of her. As a young man, Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but he’s saved from the depths by a mysterious power he never realized he had and struggles to understand.
The Water Dancer
Novel
In the pre–Civil War South, Hiram Walker, born into slavery, who lost his mother as a child and over time loses all memory of her. As a young man, Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but he’s saved from the depths by a mysterious power he never realized he had and struggles to understand.
Wrong Answer
Screenplay
A math teacher in Atlanta is scandalized when he looks to get funding for his school by altering his students' school test scores.