Ta-Nehisi Coates Is the Latest Journalist to Become a MacArthur Fellow

The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates is among this year’s 24 recipients of “genius” grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.   “When I first got the call from the MacArthur foundation I was ecstatic,” Coates said in a video on the foundation website. “You know, if anybody even reads what I’m doing, that’s a great day.”