Random House is moving up the publication date of journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book on race relations in response to the Charleston shooting and a wave of interest in the book spurred by comments from David Remnick, John Legend and others.

“Between the World and Me,” originally planned for Sept. 8, will now be released on July 14 by imprint Spiegel & Grau.

Mr. Coates is best known for his award-winning Atlantic magazine cover story, “The Case for Reparations.” His new book, written as a letter to his 15-year-old son Samori, discusses America’s history of racial violence, and explores what it is like to inhabit a black body in this country.

Moving up a book’s publication date is logistically complicated but not unheard of. In 2011, after the death of Steve Jobs, Simon & Schuster moved up publication of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Mr. Jobs.