The word movement / Kevin Powell
pt. 1. Essays. Are black people cooler than white people? / Donnell Alexander
GWTW / Hilton Als
Race Matters- The chattering classes convene / 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 / Toure
Your friendly neighborhood jungle / Daniel J. Wideman
pt. 2. 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 pt. 3. 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
"It be's that way sometimes 'cause I can't control the rhyme." - Notes from the post-soul intelligentsia / Mark Anthony Neal
Facing Unknown Possibilities: Lance Jeffers and the black aesthetic / Howard Rambsy II. pt. 4. 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
Face / Danzy Senna
The peculiar second marriage of Archie Jones / Zadie Smith
Baker / Lisa Teasley
Rika / Jervey Tervalon
Butterfly burning / Yvonne Vera
The intuitionist / Colson Whitehead.