18 Facts About TaNehisi Coates

1. TaNehisi Coates is married to Kenya Matthews, whom he met at the Harvard University.

2. TaNehisi Coates started his career as a reporter for the Washington City Paper.

3. TaNehisi Coates purchased a brownstone in Prospect Lefferts Gardens in 2016.

4. TaNehisi Coates met his wife when they were both students at Howard University.

5. TaNehisi Coates is working on a novel about an African American from Chicago who moves to Paris.

6. TaNehisi Coates sees parallels between that earlier period and the Obama presidency.

7. TaNehisi Coates wrote a spinoff of Black Panther titled Black Panther and the Crew which ran for six issues before it was canceled.

8. TaNehisi Coates is the writer of the comic book series about the Black Panther drawn by Brian Stelfreeze and published by Marvel Comics.

9. In 2008, TaNehisi Coates published The Beautiful Struggle, a memoir about coming of age in West Baltimore and its effect on him.

10. TaNehisi Coates left his position as a national correspondent for The Atlantic in July 2018 after a decade with the magazine.

11. TaNehisi Coates has worked as a guest columnist for The New York Times, having turned down an offer from them to become a regular columnist.

12. TaNehisi Coates had read Rutgers University professor Beryl Satter's book, Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America, a history of redlining that included a discussion of the grassroots organization, the Contract Buyers League, of which Clyde Ross was one of the leaders.

13. TaNehisi Coates became a senior editor at The Atlantic, for which he wrote feature articles as well as maintaining his blog.

14. TaNehisi Coates is the only child in his family without a college degree.

15. TaNehisi Coates left after five years to start a career in journalism.

16. TaNehisi Coates said he lived with his father the whole time.

17. TaNehisi Coates is the writer of a Black Panther series for Marvel Comics drawn by Brian Stelfreeze.

18. TaNehisi 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.