BABEL, Just Buffalo Literary Center’s acclaimed lecture series typically held at Kleinhans Music Hall, features bestselling author and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Ta-Nehisi Coates in a virtual event on Thursday, April 22. Coates’s books include We Were Eight Years in Power and Between The World And Me, winner of the National Book Award in 2015. His first novel, The Water Dancer, was a #1 New York Times bestseller. Coates is also the current author of the Marvel comics The Black Panther and Captain America. Coates will be joined in virtual conversation by JBLC Artistic Director Barbara Cole. The event will be available to replay for one week following the livestream.