TAMIKA PALMER: It was about 11 o'clock the next day.ĬOATES: Tells you very matter-of-factually - I think that's how you say it, I think - what happened to her daughter. Here's mine.ĬOATES: You know, and then you - it contrasts with that very bracing moment when Breonna Taylor's mother. VANCE: (As character) Everyone has a story. Like, I just - I don't have those powers. I was trying to be a writer.ĬOATES: You know, he's not something that I can put in the book or we know how to do myself, much less elicit, you know, as a director or anything. (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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