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Review Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

CoatesTa-Nehisi Coates sat down to write an open letter to his 14-year-old son, part explanation, part warning, about the unique dangers he would face for one reason alone – his black skin. The force with which what became Coates’s book Between the World and Me resonated across the community shows how acutely the issue of race is troubling our society.

Despite the passing of more than 40 years since the publication of The Fire Next Door by Coates’s acknowledged hero James Baldwin which treads this same ground. Yet Between the World and Me is as searingly applicable today as Baldwin’s writing was then. Possibly more so. The past few years have seen an increase in the number of predominantly, but by no means always, young black men, particularly at the hands of the police. 

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