Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVPrince Carmen Jones Jr., an African American man who was racially profiled and killed by police officer in Virginia in 2000, features heavily in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 2015 book “Between the World and Me,” about being Black in America.
The two were friends in college, and Jones’ story is one on which the media doesn’t often focus: an affluent Black man succumbing to tragedy at the hands of systemic racism.When “Between the World and Me” was being adapted, first as a series of monologues for the stage in 2018 and then again for an HBO special event film in 2020, Jones’ story was still a predominant element of the narrative.
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