Ta-Nehisi Coates on The Next Black President
- Posted on June 15, 2026
- By Vanity Fair
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on The Next Black President
Kamala Harris’s quest for the White House was rooted in a political tradition of nonviolence pioneered by black women. In the wake of Gaza, the broad promise of that tradition proved too much for her to bear. As the question of another run looms, Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with the implicit violence of the American presidency—and the conditions under which a black woman might ever hold that office.
