The fire this time: a new generation speaks about race

The Tradition / by Jericho Brown

Introduction / by Jesmyn Ward

Part I: Legacy

Homegoing, AD / by Kima Jones

The Weight / by Rachel Ghansah / Lonely in America / by Wendy S. Walters

Where Do We Go from Here? / by Isabel Wilkerson

"The Dear Pledges of Our Love": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband / Honoree Jeffers

White Rage / by Carol Anderson

Cracking the Code / by Jesmyn Ward

Part II: Reckoning

Queries of Unrest / by Clint Smith

Blacker Than Thou / by Kevin Young

Da Art of Storytellin' (a prequel) / by Kiese Laymon

Black and Blue / by Garnette Cadogan

The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning / by Claudia Rankine

Know Your Rights! / by Emily Raboteau

Composite Pops / by Mitchell Jackson

Part III: Jubilee

Theories of Time and Space / by Natasha Trethewey

Love in the Time of Contradiction / by Daniel Jose Older

Message to My Daughters / by Edwidge Danticat.