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Reading through Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “We Were Eight Years in Power,” I came across an incredible paragraph in which he describes the aesthetic he absorbed from Nas’s “One Love.” “Art was not an after-school special. Art was not motivational speaking. Art was not sentimental. It had no responsibility to be hopeful or optimistic or make anyoneContinue reading “Art According to Ta-Nehisi Coates”