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Ta-Nehisi Coates teaches at Howard University, where he's the Sterling Brown endowed chair in the English department. Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images hide caption

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Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in ‘The Message’

In his first nonfiction book in a decade, Coates reflects on what he learned while visiting three different places: Senegal, South Carolina and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Ta-Nehisi Coates teaches at Howard University, where he's the Sterling Brown endowed chair in the English department. Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images hide caption

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Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how oppression can breed oppression in ‘The Message’

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From WHYY in Philadelphia