We are living in a world where T Coates is a defacto proxy for the proper interpretation of black…

How exactly would you put that down in a lyric? In what key would Mahalia Jackson sing such a song? How would Duke Ellington arrange the…

We are living in a world where T Coates is a defacto proxy for the proper interpretation of black American history and experience, and that being the case we must (or must we) weight it with all of the deference to his psychological projections of suffering. Or to put it more succinctly, Coates represents a re-inscribing of a DuBoisian dilemma which is …