In his critically acclaimed book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about his personal experiences of being a black man in America through the form of a profound letter to his son. Taking inspiration from James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, Coates reuses the idea of writing a letter to a family member and applies it to a new adaptation for a newer generation to gauge the complexities of being a black man in America.

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