Ta-Nehisi Coates On Police Brutality, The Confederate Flag And Forgiveness

Growing up in West Baltimore, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was no stranger to violence. "Everyone had lost a child, somehow, to the streets, to jail, to drugs, to guns," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

Coates' new book, Between the World and Me, is an effort to protect his son from the same threats he experienced as a youth. Written in the form of a letter, Coates draws on history as well as personal experience to discuss the different forms of violence young African-Americans face on the street, in school and from the police...
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http://www.wnyc.org/story/ta-nehisi-coates-on-police-brutality-the-confederate-flag-and-forgiveness/