The word movement / Kevin Powell -- Are Black people cooler than white people? / Donnell Alexander -- GWTW / Hilton Als -- Race natters - the chattering classes convene on Martha's Vineyard / Angela Ards -- In search of Alice Walker / Valerie Boyd -- Mama's girl / Veronica Chambers -- Visible man / Trey Ellis -- Return to the planet of the apes / Ekow Eshun -- 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 -- Hip-hop hi-tech / Harry Allen -- Homophobia : hip-hop's black eye / Farai Chideya -- 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 -- Angles of vision / Jabari Asim -- 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 -- 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 -- White boy shuffle / Paul Beatty --Interpolation : peace to my nine / Ricardo Cortez Cruz -- Epilogue : women like us / Edwidge Danticat -- Sun, the moon, the stars / Junot Diaz -- Prologue, 1963 / Tananarive Due -- Emperor's babe / Bernardine Evaristo -- missionary position / Christopher John Farley -- My son, my heart, my life / John R. Keene -- Last integrationist / Jake Lamar -- slave / Victor D. LaValle -- Famished road / Ben Okri -- Stigmata / Phyllis Alesia Perry -- Pagoda / Patricia Powell -- face / Danzy Senna -- Peculiar second marriage of Archie Jones / Zadie Smith -- Baker / Lisa Teasley -- Rika / Jervey Tervalon --Butterfly burning / Yvonne Vera -- Intuitionist / Colson Whitehead -- 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 / Eisa Davis -- Binga - diary entry / Cege Githiora -- 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"? / Eisa Nefertari Ulen -- Atlantic away : a letter from Africa / Teresa N. Washington.