![]() “When ‘Between the World and Me’ came out, a lot of people had ideas for things, and I was just really tired and kind of suspicious.” “My recollection is I didn’t want to do it,” he said in a phone interview. Forbes finished the book, she knew she wanted to turn it into a stage production. “How do we, in an overwhelming, arresting, and gorgeously beautiful way, illuminate all that the book is?” Ms. “It’s unfortunate that every single week there is another world event that happens that makes the language even more relevant,” Ms. But they hope to conjure the visceral anger and grief they felt right after Jones’s death to galvanize a society still besieged by gun violence and discrimination. Forbes is the executive producer for the Apollo. They’ve come a long way since then, with many achievements to their names: Mr. Forbes will reconvene in Harlem as she adapts and directs the world premiere stage adaptation of “Between the World and Me” at the Apollo Theater. “I sat there feeling myself a heretic, believing only in this one-shot life and the body,” he wrote. Forbes - called “Aunt Kamilah” in the book - so he could attend Jones’s funeral. Coates wrote in his 2015 book “Between the World and Me” that after learning the news he dropped off his infant son with Ms. ![]() ![]() ![]() Their friend and former classmate Prince Jones had been shot to death by a police officer in Virginia. In 2000, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes shared a moment of intense pain. ![]()
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