Before Ta-Nehisi Coates won the National Book Award, was named a MacArthur Genius, and had a New-York-Times-Bestselling Book, he was a father, and he was a son. In The Beautiful Struggle, he details growing up in Baltimore during the "Age of Crack" and his father’s fight to raise his seven children. In Between the World and Me, Mr. Coates writes a letter to his son … [Read more...]