The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates museums Our identities used to be

Our identities used to be shaped by our communities

assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world

and create entirely new relationships

« Maya Angelou

The Back Matter catalogue can be viewed both as an accompaniment and continuation of this work

The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates museums Our identities used to beTa Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, but soon found himself grappling with deeper questions about the destructive myths that shape our world. First we join Coates on his inaugural trip to Africa a journey to Dakar, where he finds himself in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and the ghost haunted country of his imagination. He then takes readers to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on the banning of his