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Between the World and Me

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

  • FINISHED
  • Finished December 2018
  • First published 2015

memoir

Written as a letter to his teenage son, Coates reflects on growing up Black in Baltimore and on the vulnerability of Black bodies in America.   He draws on his own life, his time at Howard and recent police killings.