Adam Grant and Chris Anderson Respond to Coleman Hughes

Coleman Hughes’s TED Talk “A Case for Color Blindness” was posted on July 28. (Photo via @coldxman via X)
Letters from the prominent social scientist and the head of TED.
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Yesterday, The Free Press published a piece by Coleman Hughes called “Why Is TED Scared of Color Blindness?”—in which he argued that the organization, whose motto is “Ideas worth spreading,” attempted to suppress his own. Among other things, Hughes wrote that TED head Chris Anderson told him that his talk had “upset” a group of black TED employees, and …
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