Peter Beinart in Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates

Thursday, October 10th at 11am ET, virtually:

Ta-Nehisi Coates, one of the most celebrated American political writers of our time, devotes much of his new book, The Message, to a withering and deeply personal critique of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.

Join Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart and Coates for a discussion about Coates’s trip to Palestine and Israel, how the Black freedom struggle informed his understanding of what he saw there, and how he summoned the courage to insist on the truth of what he witnessed.

The event is cosponsored by Jewish Currents, the Beinart Notebook, and the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates is an award-winning author and journalist. His books include The Water Dancer and The Message. He is currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and the Sterling Brown Endowed Chair in the English department at Howard University. Coates also enjoyed a successful run writing Marvel’s Black Panther (2016–2021) and Captain America (2018–2021) comics series.

Peter Beinart teaches national reporting and opinion writing at the Newmark J-School and political science at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, an MSNBC political commentator, and a fellow at the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

P.S. Be sure to join us for another event on Monday, October 14th, at 8pm ET in New York and streaming: “No Aesthetic Outside My Freedom”: Mourning, Militancy, and Performance, curated by Jewish Currents artist-in-residence Fargo Nissim Tbakhi and presented by Jewish Currents and the Poetry Project. Learn more here.