Between the World and Me: Empathy Is a Privilege
Barack Obama and Ta-Nehisi Coates have made race and empathy central to their writing, but their conclusions point in radically different directions.
Between the World And Me Book Club: Your Final Critical Thoughts
Readers continue to scrutinize Ta-Nehisi Coates's bestseller. Does the book present a blinkered view of black Americans? Is it actually bigoted toward whites?
Between the World and Me Book Club: Not Trying to Get Into Heaven
In departing from the religious rhetoric of hope and focusing on the “struggle,” Ta-Nehisi Coates retains the ability to relate to his multiple audiences.
Between the World and Me: Saving the Next Generation
Why America’s inner-city youth need not inherit all of the burdens of the past
Between the World and Me: A Journey, Not a Vacation
A memoir connects with readers in a way that allows them to discover the emotional trial of raising a black son.
Between the World and Me Book Club: More of Your Critical Thoughts
Readers continue to debate Ta-Nehisi Coates's bestseller. Will the book’s bleak outlook make people less motivated to fight injustice?
Between the World and Me: Black American Motherhood
The challenge of raising African American daughters in the Age of Ferguson
Between the World and Me Book Club: The Stories Untold
The story of a black, male, urban childhood illuminates just one strand of the black experience.
Between the World and Me Book Club: Your Critical Thoughts
Readers discuss Ta-Nehisi Coates's bestseller. Is it too bleak? Does it convey any hope for race relations? Is that even the point?
Your Stories of Racism: An Earlier Era
In our fifth installment of a series prompted by Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Letter to My Son,” readers share their experiences with bigotry before 1980. Are they much different from our recent stories?
Between the World and Me: Baldwin's Heir?
By being himself, Coates is precisely the sort of writer that he needs to be.
Between the World and Me: 10,000 Years From Tomorrow
The permanence of racial injustice makes the struggle for the future necessary today.
Between the World and Me Book Club: Two Texts Masquerading as One
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book addresses a pair of very different audiences.
Your Stories of Racism: Around the World
In our fourth installment of a series prompted by Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Letter to My Son,” readers share their experiences with bigotry outside the United States.
'I Urge You to Struggle': An Evening With Ta-Nehisi Coates
A crowd of 600 filled Union Baptist Church in Baltimore to hear the author speak about his newly released book, Between the World and Me.
Your Stories of Racism: Beyond Black and White
In our third installment of a series prompted by Ta-Nehisi Coates’s "Letter to My Son,” his non-black readers share their experiences with bigotry.
Your Stories of Racism: Part II
Readers continue to share their experiences with racial prejudice, prompted by Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Letter to My Son.”
Your Stories of Racism
After posting his "Letter to My Son,” Ta-Nehisi Coates asked his readers to share their experiences with racial prejudice. Below is the first batch of many.
Tell Your Stories
The author of Between the World and Me asks readers to submit their own experiences with racism and its physical consequences.
Letter to My Son
“Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates Reads From Between the World and Me
A new book from father to son on race in America