A national correspondent for the Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about issues at the intersection of culture, politics, and social issues. He is also well-known for other works in addition to Between the World and Me, including The Beautiful Struggle and We Were Eight Years in Power. Fun fact: Coates is also the head writer of the new iterations of Black Panther comics!
Dr. King wrote Letters from a Birmingham Jail in response to an open letter written by 8 white clergymen titled "A Call for Unity", in which the ministers disapproved of public demonstration as a means of combatting racial segregation and advocated for use of the court system to enact change.