Coleman Hughes Wikipedia, Age, Bio, Wife, Girlfriend, Wiki, Biography

Name Coleman Hughes

Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB Born on February 25, 1996. As of 2025, he is around 29 years old.

Wedding & Marriage / Wife / Engaged / Spouse / Partner Currently not married, possibly single. Check the full bio for relationship details.

Profile / Background Information

Introduction :

Coleman Cruz Hughes is a writer and columnist at Quillette Magazine.
He was born in Montclair, New Jersey, and currently lives in Manhattan, New York.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

Coleman studied at the Newark Academy, a private co-educational day school in Livingston, Essex County, New Jersey.
He began his graduate studies at Columbia University in 2016 and wrote articles along the way.
As a teenager, he had studied Jazz at the Jazz House Kids, a non-profit organization based out of Montclair, NJ. Here he learned to play the trombone and was one of the few who performed with the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra at the Monterey Jazz Festival.

Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :

Coleman works for Quillette, a digital magazine encouraging open thoughts on politics, culture, news, science, and technology. He has written several articles for the platform, some of which include “The ‘Black Chic’ Wave,” “Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap,” “The High Price of Stale Grievances,” “The Racism Treadmill,” and “Kanye West and the Future of Black Conservatism.”
His blog goes by his own name with the URL afro-optimist.blogspot.com. Some of the articles he wrote for the blog include “The Atlantic Pretends Not to Understand Black-on-Black Crime and “Explaining Affirmative Action to a Martian.”
One of his most popular pieces was “The diversity trap” for The Spectator, U.K., a magazine that focuses on politics, current affairs, and culture.
He has also been a contributor to the City Journal, a New York-based magazine published by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. His articles include “How to Be an Anti-Intellectual,” “What The New Integrationists Fail to See,” and “Misreading the minimum wage-and race.”
While studying as a second-year undergraduate student at Columbia University, Coleman wrote an article, “A Tale of Two Columbia Classes” for the Heterodox Academy. This is an organization founded in 2015 which aims to highlight diverse viewpoints on college campuses. In the article, he openly opined his views on a philosophy professor’s teaching style he didn’t exactly approve of.
During his undergraduate studies, he also wrote for the student body newspaper of Columbia University, the Columbia Daily Spectator. His article was titled “Letter to the editor: The core wars and the death of civility.”
He has also worked as a Lampoon Artist at the Psychosexual Edible Birdhouses Inc. in Chickentown, Pennsylvania.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

Coleman’s school’s jazz director, Julius Tolentino, recognized his special talent in music and made him aware of the renowned organization, Jazz House Kids, where he was also a faculty member.
He wanted to pursue jazz professionally and had been interested in it since childhood. He had tried playing drums and piano but eventually decided on the trombone because he liked its slide.
According to his Facebook profile, he knows the Töitschu and Guanche languages, the latter of which is an extinct Berber language.
According to his social media, he likes the New York Mets when it comes to sports.
Some TV programs that he watches are Modern Family, BoJack Horseman, Archer, Family Guy, and New Girl amongst others.