From the Book - First edition.
Opening pages, essays. Children's crusade / Tamara Ginn ; Preface / Philip Cushway ; Introduction / Michael Warr ; Talk / Jeannine Ambre ; Harry Belafonte / Black Power and the Impact of Words ; Protest poetry / Amin Baraka
Poets/Poems. Narrative: Ali, a poem in twelve rounds / Elizabeth Alexander ; Wise 5 / Amiri Baraka ; Emmett Till / Wanda Coleman ; New day / Kwame Dawes ; Note on my son's face / Toi Derricotte ; Enactment / Rita Dove ; Conspiracy / Camille T. Dungy ; Emmett Till's glass-top casket / Cornelius Eady ; Superhero / Kelly Norman Ellis ; Identity repairman / Thomas Sayers Ellis ; Left / Nikky Finney ; Daytonm, OH, '50s & '60s / C.S. Giscombe ; Voice of America / Duriel E. Harris ; New rules of the road / Reginald Harris ; Some luminous distress (for Betty Shabazz) / Terrance Hayes ; Fannie (for Fannie Lou Hamer) / Angela Jackson ; Rose colored city / Major Jackson ; Infernal / Tyehimba Jess ; Saltimbanque / Patricia Spears Jones ; Tallahatchiue lullabye, baby / Douglas Kearney ; History lessons / Yusef Komunyakaa ; statement on the killing of patrick dorismond / Quraysh Ali Lansana ; Great wait / Haki Madhubuti ; on continuing to struggle / devorah major ; 10 race koans as presented to Charles Johnson on the morning of July 13, 2008 / E. Ethelbert Miller ; We are not responsible / Harryette Mullen ; Cells and window : after work by neogeo painter Peter Halley / Marilyn Nelson ; I hear the shuffle of the people's feet / Sterling Plumpp ; Poetic reflections enroute to, and during, the funeral and burial of Henry Dumas, poet, May 29, 1968 / Eugene B. Redmond ; Sweet pea / Ishmael Reed ; Not brought up / Ed Roberson ; Elegy (for MOVE and Philadelphia) / Sonia Sanchez ; x marks the spot / Evie Shockley ; At 59 / Tim Seibles ; NO WOUND OF EXIT / Patricia Smith ; Duende / Tracy K. Smith ; Such a boat of land / Lamont B. Steptoe ; Liturgy / Natasha Trethewey ; Poem for my father / Quincy Troupe ; Li'l Kings / Frank X. Walker ; To Malcom X on his second coming / Afaa M. Weaver ; For the sky, in which you will one day, belong / Ronaldo V. Wilson ; Blues for Malcom X / Al Young ; Epilogue: Statement by the Reverend Dr. William Barber II.
