Ta-Nehisi Coates crashes a school board meeting discussing the banning of his book (video)

When a South Carolina school board met with outraged parents to discuss an award-winning book by author Ta-Nehisi Coates that was banned from a classroom syllabus, they didn't expect to meet face to face with Coates himself.

But footage shows Coates — whose nonfiction memoir, Between the World and Me, was removed from an AP course at Chapin High School in the Lexington-Richmond district after its topic of racism made a couple of white students feel uncomfortable — sitting in solidarity among the parents who supported his book and right next to the teacher who had assigned the book. — Read the rest