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re: #TaNehisiCoates and #VanityFair: Me And #JosieGonsalves On #AllPoliticsRLocal, Friday, July 3, 2026: Pastrami Over Politics With A Side Of Responsibility

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And here’s my (repost of my) extensive talk on #JaredBall ‘s #imixwhatilike about #TaNehisiCoates when Coates published #TheMessage, his book featuring an essay on #Gaza. I jokingly call this my #KattWilliams interview 🙂

I put this in the Comments two days ago:

Listening to, and laughing about, this rant almost two years later…..

UPDATES:

There is now a book on the history of #TheVillageVoice. It’s called The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of #TheVillageVoice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture.

There is a book about Coates’ run on the #MarvelComics character #BlackPanther. It’s called Writing Black Panther: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles.

2:02:45: Freedom Fighter: My Life as a Soldier in the #BlackLiberationArmy, #AshaBandele‘s collaboration with Black #politicalprisoner #SekouOdinga, is due to be out October 2026, as of this writing.

CORRECTIONS:

14:07 ; 2:01:55: Political prisoner #MaroonShoatz openly said the goal of his 2024 book #IAmMaroon was to get a film deal, a la “#TheHurricane.”

37:41: The James Baldwin essay that pissed #RichardWright off was “Everybody’s Protest Novel.” Baldwin’s obit of Wright was “Alas, Poor Richard.”

50:26: I meant ” AMIRI BARAKA’s daughters from Hettie…”

59:41: The #JohnHenrikClarke essay was called “The Alienation of James Baldwin.”

#TaNehisiCoates #ImixwhatIlike #TheMessage #Blackwriting #politicaleconomy #JamesBaldwin #AlexHaley #AmiriBaraka #CornelWest #MayaAngelou #magazinejournalismhistory #Palestine #literaryjournalism

#imixwhatilike: re: #TaNehisiCoates: What Is The Message? ft. #ToddStevenBurroughs

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2026 COMMENTS: This was my version of a #KattWilliams interview. 🙂 I cut and pasted comments below I made today, almost two years later.


@IsiahBradley

4 hours ago (edited) Listening to, and laughing about, this almost two years later…..

[2026] UPDATES:

There is now a book on the history of #TheVillageVoice. It’s called “The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture.”

There is a book about Coates’ run on the #MarvelComics character #BlackPanther. It’s called “Writing Black Panther: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Representation Struggles.”

2:02:45: “Freedom Fighter: My Life as a Soldier in the #BlackLiberationArmy,” #AshaBandele‘s collaboration with Black #politicalprisoner#SekouOdinga, is due to be out October 2026, as of this writing.

CORRECTIONS: 14:07 ; 2:01:55: Political prisoner #MaroonShoatz openly said the goal of his 2024 book #IAmMaroon was to get a film deal, a la “#TheHurricane.”

37:41: The James Baldwin essay that pissed #RichardWright off was “Everybody’s Protest Novel.” Baldwin’s obit of Wright was “Alas, Poor Richard.”

50:26: I meant ” AMIRI BARAKA’s daughters from Hettie…”

59:41: The #JohnHenrikClarke essay was called “The Alienation of James Baldwin.”

#TaNehisiCoates#ImixwhatIlike#TheMessage#Blackwriting#politicaleconomy#JamesBaldwin#AlexHaley#AmiriBaraka#CornelWest#MayaAngelou#magazinejournalismhistory#Palestine#literaryjournalism