June 16, 2011 – Segment 1

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of The Beautiful Struggle and senior editor for The Atlantic, joins us to talk about underlying racial issues in the new X-Men movie, the Civil War, and the complexities of American culture and race.  You can read his op-ed in the New York Times about X-Men: First Class here.

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