The National Book Foundation is defending its decision to honor publisher W. Paul Coates, father of the influential journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, with its Literarian lifetime achievement award, despite his press having published a work that’s been accused of being antisemitic.
In September, Jewish Insider reported that Coates’s Black Classic Press, was continuing to publish The Jewish Onslaught, a 1993 work from then-Wellesly College Africana Studies Tony Martin.
