Ta-Nehisi Coates Has a Word For Kamala Harris

One of the nation's foremost thought leaders says the next Black president needs to talk like Fannie Lou Hamer, not Hillary Clinton

Can a Black woman embody both the American empire and the revolutionary spirit of Fannie Lou Hamer? Writer and public intellectual Ta-Nehisi Coates asks that question in his bracing new piece for Vanity Fair (subscription required but free trial available.)

Coates joined The Joy Reid Show this week to discuss the piece, the ongoing genocide in Gaza (and …