Table of Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Chapter One - NO GENERATION REMOVED

Lalita Tademy

Chapter Two - MAGNIFICENT BARBARISM

Stanley Crouch

Chapter Three - A FUTURE WITH PROMISE

A’Lelia Bundles

Chapter Four - TO BE A PROBLEM

David G. Du Bois

Chapter Five - SIMPLE BEAUTY

Touré

Chapter Six - PLAYING WITH MIGHTY FIRES

Julian Bond

Chapter Seven - A PLACE IN THE WORLD

Thelma Golden

Chapter Eight - SELF-REALIZATION

Kathleen Cleaver

Chapter Nine - STRIVE AND STRIVE MIGHTILY

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.

Chapter Ten - THE QUESTION OF THE FUTURE

Cory Booker

Chapter Eleven - FRANK AND FAIR

Jewell Jackson McCabe

Chapter Twelve - THE RULE OF INEQUALITY

Derrick Bell

Chapter Thirteen - SUPPOSE

Elizabeth Alexander

Chapter Fourteen - HIGHER INDIVIDUALISM

Clarence Major

Chapter Fifteen - THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EXPRESSION

Terence Blanchard

Chapter Sixteen - THE PREACHER MAN

The Reverend James Forbes

Chapter Seventeen - WHAT SOUL I WILL

Patricia Smith

Chapter Eighteen - THE HEALING

LeAlan Jones

Epilogue

List of Contributors

About the Author

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