Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kamala Harris, Gaza, Obama, and the Next Black President

Kamala Harris’s quest for the White House was rooted in a political tradition of nonviolence pioneered by black women. In the wake of Gaza, the broad promise of that tradition proved too much for her to bear. As the question of another run looms, Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with the implicit violence of the American presidency—and the conditions by which a black woman might ever hold that office.