Black Student Fund and T'Nehisi Coates

biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me offers a powerful framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis.
This live performance event will be a presentation of excerpted selections, read monologue-style by notable guest artists with newly composed music by Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz and MacArthur Genius Award recipient Jason Moran (Selma and Netflix’s 13th), direction by Apollo Executive Producer Kamilah Forbes (Broadway’s Stickfly, NBC’s The Wiz), and interactive visual storytelling by projection media artists.
Commissioned by the Apollo Theater and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Produced by the Apollo Theater in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.