Ta-Nehisi Coates

President Donald Trump’s chief of staff also said, “Robert E. Lee was an honorable man.”

The film will explore the 2006 Atlanta Public Schools standardized test cheating scandal, which prompted national debate about the strict testing provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.

“My President Was Black” will appear in the January/February 2017 issue of The Atlantic.

“Coogler’s a genius. (Did you see ‘Creed’?) I would only eff his isht up,” the author and journalist tweeted during a Twitter Q&A on July 30.

The three acclaimed writers sat down for a public conversation at New York City’s Ambassador Theatre.

“Writing a book from a Black perspective is freeing. Seeing it constantly examined from a White perspective is depressing.”

In the video, “Black Panther” writer Ta-Nehisi Coates explains the motivation behind his adaptation of the Marvel superhero’s story.

Marvel previously announced that the “Creed” and “Fruitvale Station” director is set to helm the film.

“But there is something deeply shameful—and hurtful—in the fact that even today a young Nina Simone would have a hard time being cast in her own biopic. In this sense, the creation of ‘Nina’ is not a neutral act. It is part of the problem.”