Ta-Nehisi Coates
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893 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 19 Jun
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Left her five kids behind to go, you know, join this march.
Was giving two marchers a ride on the way back when she was murdered by a group of white supremacists.
And here's where the story gets dark.
In that car also of the murderers was an FBI agent under the direction or FBI informant under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover.
And Hoover, in order to hide the fact that the Bureau actually had an asset in the car when Viola Louiezo was killed, spread this rumor about her, very similar to the kind of rumors that you, or the kind of stuff you hear about Renee Goode, that in fact she was a heroin addict and she was down there doing heroin with black men and she had only gone south to sleep with black men.
And they put this stuff out there and they traumatized her family.
This is the federal government, right?
This isn't just like white supremacists.
This is J. Edgar Hoover doing this.
And that was the price that she paid with her life.
And then her family continued to pay the price after.
And I guess one thing I have never understood is why we don't hear her name more.
I just don't get it.
You know what I mean?
She's such an important figure and an important activist.
You know, it can be the latest chapter and be different too.
Like it can have precedent and also be like, both can be true, you know?
I would struggle to tell you a time in my lifetime where at the federal level,
We're at the federal level.
So many resources have been marshaled across so many states.
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