Ta-Nehisi Coates on why stories matter in the age of Trump
Today in Focus
The Guardian
4.6 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:08.2 | Today, a conversation with the writer Tanahasi Coates on the State of America today. |
| 0:18.9 | Today it is B.E. Day. The war is open. |
| 0:22.6 | The newly crowned queen waves from the Belgian. |
| 0:24.6 | The needle has led. |
| 0:25.6 | Afterlion has led. |
| 0:26.6 | Tearing down the Berlin War. |
| 0:27.6 | Since 1929, the Monk's Investment Trust's mission has been to help investors grow their wealth. |
| 0:33.6 | We aim to do this today by taking a three-dimensional approach to growth, |
| 0:38.5 | cyclical growth, rapid growth, and steady growth. The Mox Investment Trust, managed by |
| 0:47.3 | Bailey Gifford, Capital at Risk. In 2014, the writer and journalist Tanahasi Coates published an essay making the case |
| 1:02.4 | that African Americans were owed reparations for the system of slavery in place just a few |
| 1:08.7 | generations before. |
| 1:10.7 | I remember the essay, the way that it pinged around the internet. |
| 1:15.4 | The way people whose attention spans were already eroding, including myself, actually |
| 1:20.4 | read it, thought about it. |
| 1:22.7 | The way it made this idea, reparations for slavery, that was always always fringe seem not just reasonable but necessary. |
| 1:31.3 | It was a rare sight in Congress, a hearing on reparations held yesterday in one of the many |
| 1:35.8 | buildings in Washington built on slave labor. Journalist and author Tanahasi Coates helped kick |
| 1:41.3 | start this round of the reparations debate. The greatest damage that enslavement did, besides the economic damage, |
| 1:47.0 | besides the normalization of torture, of rape, |
| 1:50.0 | besides the normalization of treating people as though they are things, |
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