![]() ![]() However, one night, while driving to his fiancée’s house in Virginia, Jones was followed across state lines by a DC police officer – the same officer who would go on to shoot Jones dead outside his fiancée’s house. By all accounts, Jones’s future was destined to be a happy, middle-class life. No expense was spared when it came to her son, who was a father and engaged to be married. Jones’s mother came from poverty, but she worked hard and “made it” in America. The second experience involved an acquaintance, Prince Jones, whom he met at Howard University, an HBCU, short for historically Black colleges and universities. This fleeting moment solidified the notion that, because he was Black, he was constantly subject to the threat of spontaneous and unexpected violence directed at him. ![]() He said nothing to Coates he simply pulled out a gun from his ski jacket, brandished it, and then put it back. Across the street, an unknown boy called him over. The first occurred in 1986, when Coates was standing outside a market after school. But a couple experiences stand out as being the most formative. Throughout his life Coates has lived with the typical fears that Black people have in the United States. ![]() ![]() Author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates was born on September 30, 1975, in Baltimore, Maryland. ![]()
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