20 Books About Black Lives Matter and Civil Rights to Put on Your Essential Reading List

In Between the World and Me, journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates pens a series of essays in the form of a letter to his son. Coates identifies the role race in America has played in shaping the country's history, and how present-day society still operates on a system of systemic oppression—from police brutality and the death of Michael Brown, to the flawed justice system that allowed Trayvon Martin's killer to walk free, and the undeniable, constant threats that target Black bodies in the US.