“As people across our country continue to speak out about violent, systemic racism and the urgent need for tangible change, Ta-Nehisi’s words resonate as strongly today as they did five years ago,” Forbes added. The 2018 production of Between the World and Me was included in The Apollo, which looked back at the legendary theater’s history. Roger Ross Williams, Oscar winner and director of HBO’s documentary The Apollo, comes on as a producer. “I can think of no one better to put Between the World and Me on screen and no better home for it than HBO.” Coates and This Is Us actress Susan Kelechi Watson both serve as executive producers. “I’ve been working with Kamilah for almost as long as I’ve been a writer,” Coates said in a statement. Kamilah Forbes, executive producer of the Apollo and an old friend of Coates’s (she’s even in the book), will once again direct the adaptation, as well as executive produce. The special will also include animation and both archival and documentary footage. Technically, they’re adapting the Apollo Theater’s 2018 stage performance, which featured readings from the New York Times best seller. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s nonfiction work Between the World and Me, a powerful letter to his teenage son looking back on his life through the lens of structural racism, is coming to HBO as a special this fall. Photo: Johnny Nunez/Getty Images for NAACP LDF
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