Ta-Nehisi Coates Talks Arts, Reparations At Glimmerglass By JENNIFER HILL • Special to AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Described as “the greatest essayist on race in America since James Baldwin,” Ta-Nehisi Coates did not mince words as he replied to pre-submitted questions read aloud by moderator Teresa Miller, SUNY system’s chief diversity officer, at The Glimmerglass Festival’s Alice Busch Opera Theater yesterday. “A majority of Americans have deeply misunderstood how deep white supremacy runs in America,” he told the packed theater. “We…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, Reparations Advocate, Due At Glimmerglass COOPERSTOWN – Best-selling author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose influential 2014 article in the Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations” was revisited last month in a New Yorker interview, will speak at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, at The Glimmerglass Festival’s Alice Busch Opera Theater. The discussion will be moderated by Teresa Miller, the SUNY system’s chief diversity officer. A Q&A session follows the discussion. Coates, national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine until earlier…