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Coates expressed his excitement about writing a new DC superhero in 2021... but then we never heard anything about it again.
Acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Superman script was set during the Civil Rights era and was apparently nixed by ...
In early 2014, before Ferguson, before Eric Garner, Tamir Rice and Walter Scott, before Emanuel AME Church, Ta-Nehisi Coates got caught up in a skirmish over who should be deemed America’s ...
Photo: Getty Images North America Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav reportedly “dismissed” a film depicting a Black version of Superman, claiming the idea was “too woke.” According to the Wall Street ...
Early in “We Were Eight Years in Power,” Ta-Nehisi Coates’ third book, he writes, “[t]here is a notion out there that black people enjoy the Sisyphean struggle against racism.
His Superman would have been, per comments made at the time, his attempt at “meaningfully adding to the legacy of America’s ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the writing process 03:00. Howard, for him, was an awakening -- less about his classes, more about self-education, experiencing a whole world in a small space: "You would meet ...
The JJ Abrams and Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Superman project was too woke for David Zaslav, so it might be done for permanently.
TA-NEHISI COATES: Yeah, I mean, I think the testimony was that one should not receive payment that would properly be due to the enslaved. But this country is, to this very day, receiving payment ...
You’re invited to join me tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. EST as I talk through your questions and comments with Ta-Nehisi Coates. Today, I’ll highlight several big themes that emerged from your ...
HBO is set to adapt Ta-Nehisi Coates‘ “Between the World and Me” as a special event airing this fall, the premium cabler announced Thursday.. Kamilah Forbes is set to direct, with Coates and ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates to Present W. Paul Coates the Literarian Award at 2024 National Book Awards. Coates will be honored for his work having "recovered and discovered countless essential works of ...