Essays. The word movement / Kevin Powell --
Are black people cooler than white people? / Donnell Alexander --
Race natters : the chattering classes convene on Martha's Vineyard / Angela Ards --
In search of Alice Walker / Valerie Boyd --
Mama's girl / Veronica Chambers --
The visible man / Trey Ellis --
Return to the planet of the apes / Ekow Eshun --
The sports taboo : why blacks are like boys and whites are like girls / Malcolm Gladwell --
Are we Tiger Woods yet? / Lisa Jones --
On the disappearance of Joe Wood Jr. / Robin D.G. Kelley --
She and I / Bruce Morrow --
White girl? / Lonnae O'Neal Parker --
What happens when your 'hood is the last stop on the white flight express? / Taigi Smith --
Texaco / Natasha Tarpley --
Speaking in tongues / Touré --
Your friendly neighborhood jungle / Daniel J. Wideman.
Hip-hop journalism. Hip-hop hi-tech / Harry Allen --
Homophobia : hip-hop's black eye / Farai Chideya --
The death of rock n' roll / Cheo Hodari Coker --
Confessions of a hip-hop critic / Dream Hampton --
Hip-hop feminist / Joan Morgan --
This is not a puff piece / Scott Poulson-Bryant --
Live from death row / Kevin Powell --
Hit 'em up : on the life and death of Tupac Shakur / Danyel Smith.
Criticism. Angles of vision / Jabari Asim --
The soul of black talk / Erin Aubry --
Do books matter? / Kevin Baldeosingh --
The other side of paradise : feminist pedagogy, Toni Morrison iconography, and Oprah's book club phenomenon / Daphne A. Brooks --
She's gotta have it / Debra Dickerson --
No entry / Lynell George --
What about black romance? / Esther Iverem --
Notes from the post-soul intelligentsia. "It be's that way sometimes 'cause I can't control the rhyme." / Mark Anthony Neal --
Facing unknown possibilities : Lance Jeffers and the black aesthetic / Howard Rambsy II.
Fiction. The white boy shuffle / Paul Beatty --
Interpolation : peace to my nine / Ricardo Cortez Cruz --
Epilogue : women like us / Edwidge Danticat --
The sun, the moon, the stars / Junot Diaz --
Prologue, 1963 / Tananarive Due --
The emperor's babe / Bernardine Evaristo --
The missionary position / Christopher John Farley --
My son, my heart, my life / John R. Keene --
The last integrationist / Jake Lamar --
Slave / Victor D. LaValle --
The famished road / Ben Okri --
Stigmata / Phyllis Alesia Perry --
The pagoda / Patricia Powell --
The peculiar second marriage of Archie Jones / Zadie Smith --
Rika / Jervey Tervalon --
Butterfly burning / Yvonne Vera --
The intuitionist / Colson Whitehead.
Poetry. Safari / Toyin Adewale --
The rumor / Jane Alberdeston-Coralin --
Fugue / Elizabeth Alexander --
The clearing / Jeffery Renard Allen --
I dream of Jesus / Charlie Braxton --
Personal / Shonda Buchanan --
Tat tvam asi (You Are the One) / Paul Calderon --
One irony of the Caribbean / Adrian Castro --
Legba, landed / Wayde Compton --
Excursion to Port Royal / Kwame Dawes --
Dear Mr. Ellison / Jarvis Q. DeBerry --
Church y'all / Ruth Forman --
The yellow forms of paradise / Danielle Legros Georges --
Swampy river / Brian Gilmore --
from "Awakening" / Duriel E. Harris --
When the neighbors fight / Terrance Hayes --
You are chic now, Che / Ogaga Ifowodo --
Visitation : Grenada, 1978 / Allison Joseph --
100 times / Arnold J. Kemp --
Discubriendo una fotografía de mi madre / Shara McCallum --
Sometime in the summer there's October / Tony Medina --
The outcome / Jessica Care Moore --
Toi Derricotte at Quail Ridge Books / Lenard D. Moore --
Nairobi streetlights / Samwiri Mukuru --
3 movements / Letta Neely --
The night when Mukoma told the devil to go to hell / Mukoma Wa Ngugi --
Autobiography of a black man / G.E. Patterson --
Spotlight at the Nuyorican poets café / Willie Perdomo --
Patrimony / Rohan Preston --
Intermission in three acts in service of PLOT / Claudia Rankine --
Calypso the outside woman / Vanessa Richards --
The woman / Kristina Rungano --
Sunday / Angela Shannon --
Purple Impala / Renée Simms --
Windows of exile / Patrick Sylvain --
Gin and juice / Imani Tolliver --
Collection day / Natasha Tretheway --
Insomnia / Marco Villalobos --
Shrine outside Basquiat's studio, September 1988 / Kevin Young.
Dialogue. Black youth black art black face : an address / Ras Baraka --
Leaving a feminist organization : a personal/poetics / Stefani Barber --
We are trying to (have me) conceive / Tisa Bryant --
If we've gotta live underground and everybody's got cancer/will poetry be enuf? : a letter to Ntozake Shange / Eisa Davis --
Binga : diary entry / Cege Githiora --
The six-hour difference : a Dutch perspective on the new world / Scotty Gravenberch --
Just beneath the surface : an email / Sarah Jones --
By invitation : an open letter to the president of South Africa / Itumeleng oa Mahabane --
What happened to your generation's promise of "love and revolution"? : a letter to Angela Davis / Eisa Nefertari Ulen --
An Atlantic away : a letter from Africa / Teresa N. Washington.