Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The beautiful struggle, 2008: eCIP t.p. (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Coates, Ta-Nehisi; print journalist, autobiographer / memoirist; born 1975 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States; his name is the word ancient Egyptians used for the land of Nubia; grew up in a West Baltimore during the 1980s epidemic of crack cocaine and its accompanying violent turf battles; attended Howard University, from 1993 until 1997; became a journalist around 1996, when he started writing for the Washington Times and then the Washington Post; his writing and reporting talent later took him to Washington Monthly, Entertainment Weekly, and the Village Voice; worked at the Voice until 2004, when he went to work for Time Magazine between 2005 and 2007; his memoir, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, was also published in 2008)

Wikipedia, 16 Feb. 2017 (Ta-Nehisi Coates; Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates; b. 30 Sep. 1975 in Baltimore, MD; American writer, journalist, and educator)