{"id":27488,"date":"2015-11-20T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/?p=27488"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T19:05:57","slug":"ta-nehisi-coates-fear-black-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2015\/11\/20\/ta-nehisi-coates-fear-black-experience\/27488\/","title":{"rendered":" Ta-Nehisi Coates on Fear and the Black Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of <em>Between the World and Me<\/em> began his book tour at historic Union Baptist Church in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Fear, he said, is &#8220;one of the dominant emotions of the black experience.&#8221; Watch excerpts from his talk as well as our interview with him at Howard University in Washington, DC, where he spoke about race, religion, violence, and \u201cthe moral arc of the universe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t come out of the church. I don&#8217;t have an intuitive understanding of what religion gives to people. I just don&#8217;t. I didn&#8217;t really grow up in a Christian household,&#8221; says the author of <em>Between the World and Me<\/em>. &#8220;I&#8217;m very distanced from that. 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