How to Live Within a Black Body
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” is a letter to his son, and a lesson for us all
By Bijan Stephen @bijanstephen
If you were to map the black bodies destroyed by American police this year, you would have what looks like the shadow of a cancer creeping steadily across the lower 48; the names would bloom across the states in the way that a malignant lung tumor might, from as common and as lethal a cause.
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