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DESCRIPTION:A conversation with journalist\, MacArthur Fellow\, and Nationa
 l Book Award-winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates. During his tenure as senior 
 editor at The Atlantic\, Coates wrote the influential 2014 essay “The Ca
 se for Reparations” and in 2019 testified in front of a Congressional Ho
 use hearing on H.R. 40\, a bill to establish a commission to study reparat
 ions. The conversation will be moderated by Duncan Ryuken Williams (USC It
 o Center). \n\nBrought to you by the Ito Center in partnership with Densho
 \, the Japanese American National Museum\, and Tsuru for Solidarity. \n\nF
 lyer | RSVP \n\nTa-Nehisi Coates is an author\, journalist\, screenwriter\
 , executive producer and professor. He is the author of the bestselling bo
 oks The Beautiful Struggle\, We Were Eight Years in Power\, The Water Danc
 er\, and Between the World and Me\, which won the National Book Award in 2
 015. In April 2018\, Between The World And Me was adapted for the stage an
 d premiered at the iconic Apollo Theater. In November 2020 it was adapted 
 for film and aired on HBO\, and for which Ta-Nehisi was an Executive Produ
 cer. His novel The Water Dancer will be turned into a film adaptation – 
 with Ta-Nehisi writing the screenplay - and will be produced by Plan B Ent
 ertainment\, Harpo Productions and MGM Studios. He is also the current aut
 hor of the Marvel comic Captain America. Ta-Nehisi is the recipient of a 2
 015 MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently in his fourth year as a distingu
 ished writer in residence at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. 
 \n\nDuncan Ryūken Williams is Professor of Religion/American Studies & Et
 hnicity at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC S
 hinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. Williams is the autho
 r of the LA Times bestseller American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom 
 in the Second World War (Harvard University Press\, 2019) about Buddhism a
 nd the WWII Japanese American internment\; The Other Side of Zen: A Social
  History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan (Princeton University Pr
 ess\, 2005)\, and editor of seven books including Issei Buddhism in the Am
 ericas\, American Buddhism\, Hapa Japan\, and Buddhism and Ecology. \n\nTh
 is event is part of the Ito Center Black + Japanese American Reparations. 
 Other events in the series include "From Japanese American Redress to Blac
 k Reparations: A Conversation with John Tateishi and William Darity/A. Kir
 sten Mullen" and a full book club.  All are welcome. Event partners includ
 e Densho\, the Japanese American National Museum\, and Tsuru for Solidarit
 y.  See the full series flyer.
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SUMMARY:Reparations Past and Present: A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
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