PBS' Religion and Ethics Newsweekly–Ta-Nehisi Coates on Fear and the Black Experience

“I didn’t come out of the church. I don’t have an intuitive understanding of what religion gives to people. I just don’t. I didn’t really grow up in a Christian household,” says the author of Between the World and Me. “I’m very distanced from that. For both good and ill, it probably marks my writing.”

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