Angela Bassett reading an excerpt of Ta-Nehisi Coates' Between the World and Me in the television adaption of the nonfiction book (2020)

Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates. It was written by Coates as a letter to his then-teenage son about his perception of what the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being Black in the United States are.