"A Conversation with Ta’Nehisi Coates” 2026 William R. Kenan Jr. Lecture

Join award-winning author and journalist Ta’Nehisi Coates at this incredible free lecture as part of Transylvania University's William R. Kenan Jr. Lecture Series presented in collaboration with the Bingham Center for Teaching Excellence and the Hazelrigg Lecture Series for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Ta-Nehisi Coates is an award-winning author and journalist. He is the author of the bestselling books “The Message,” “The Beautiful Struggle,” “We Were Eight Years in Power,” “The Water Dancer,” and “Between the World and Me,” which won the National Book Award in 2015. He was a recipient of a Mac

Arthur Fellowship that same year. As a journalist with a career spanning over two decades, he has written for numerous publications including The Washington City Paper, The Village Voice, The New Yorker and The New York Times. During his time reporting for The Atlantic between 2008-18, he penned numerous articles and essays, including the National Magazine Award-winning 2012 essay “Fear of