The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Audacious Book Club December selection

In Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s 2015 epistolary work addressed to his son, he writes of his youthful act of reclaiming both his body and his power—the same power that animated his ancestors—through books. He notes that by the late 1990s, he had been reading and writing “beyond the purview” of school for his whole life already, and furthe…