https://summaryshelf.app/authors/ta-nehisi-coates/Recent content in Ta-Nehisi Coates on SummaryShelfHugoen-usSun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/between-the-world-and-me/Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/between-the-world-and-me/<p>The night it was announced that Michael Brown&rsquo;s killers would go free, Coates&rsquo;s fifteen-year-old son said &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got to go,&rdquo; went into his room, and cried. His father came in five minutes later and did not hug him, did not tell him it would be okay, because he has never believed it would be. He said what his own parents had told him: this is your country, this is your body, find some way to live within it. The book is the long version of that answer.</p>