Baltimore native Ta-Nehisi Coates has resigned from The Atlantic, the magazine that provided him with a national platform during his emergence over the past decade as a leading American intellectual.

Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor, sent out a memo to the staff at 3 p.m. last Friday saying that while Coates will no longer be the magazine’s national correspondent after next month, his relationship with the publication will continue.

“It should go without saying — but I will say it anyway —that Ta-Nehisi will forever be a member of The Atlantic family and he will of course continue to mentor and coach many of our up-and-coming young journalists,” Goldberg wrote in the memo. “I’m hoping, of course, that Ta-Nehisi will make journalism for us again soon.”

Coates joined the magazine’s staff in 2008. His 2012 cover story, “Fear of a Black President,” and in particular his 2014 essay, “The Case for Reparations,” established him as a major voice on race relations in the U.S.

During recent years, he has made headlines regularly. His book “Between the World and Me” won the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

— Mary Carole McCauley