Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
It’s a story that challenges many narratives and myths about family and sacrifice. Growing up in a blighted Baltimore neighborhood in the 1980s, Ta-Nehisi Coates was raised with six siblings by an enigmatic single father and iconoclast. In his new memoir, Coates explores how his family adapted to their unique environment, and how his father embraced the challenge of navigating his sons from inner-city adolescence through Howard University.
Guests
- Ta-Nehisi Coates Freelance journalist; and author "The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood" (Spiegel & Grau)
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