Poet, memoirist, and essayist E. Ethelbert Miller relaxes into a brightly colored classroom chair wearing his signature purple-framed glasses and fedora. Having just come from his talk at American University about Ta-Nehisi Coates’s multiple award-winning memoir, Between the World And Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015) his mind turns toward the power of the arts to create “change for the better.”