(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME")ĬOURTNEY VANCE: (As character) I delivered food for a small deli. TA-NEHISI COATES: You know, I watch Courtney Vance and what he does. When I spoke with Coates about the HBO special, I asked him why he wanted to bring his words to the screen. Actors, including Mahershala Ali and Angela Bassett, present the author's words as part of a kind of visual essay, their monologues mixed in with a collage of historical photographs, news clips and hip-hop. I have always wanted you to attack every day of your brief, bright life in struggle.ĬORNISH: Now it's been reimagined for television. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME")ĪNGELA BASSETT: (As character) In America, it is traditional to destroy the Black body. The 2015 book "Between The World And Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates was an intimate letter between a father and son about being Black, being a man, being American.
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