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Stephen Colbert - Guest Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
“I Knew It Was Going To Be A Fight” - Ta-Nehisi Coates, Anticipating The Reactions To “The Message"Best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates knew he would face blowback for using words like “segregation” to describe the living conditions he witnessed when doing research in Israel and the West Bank for his latest book. “The Message” is available everywhere now.