Haven't heard the album—gonna cop today. Any thoughts? Forgive my tardiness. I've been gone. Monday I came in on the bus and saw a big poster for Angelina Jolie's Salt, and thought, "Oh yeah, she did have a movie out..."

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Ta-Nehisi Coates is a former national correspondent for The Atlantic. He is the author of The Beautiful Struggle, We Were Eight Years in Power, The Water Dancer, and Between the World and Me, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction.