Foreword  
Preface  
Acknowledgments    

Part I: FAMILY
1. The Family Must Stand – The Honorable Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI)
2. The Out-House Generation – Raegan L. Burden
3. Journey for Love – Venus Bivins
4. A Family Moment – Vicangelo Bulluck  
5. DNA Has Memory: We Are Who We Were – Isaiah Washington
6. A Black Family Living in Japan – Leslie Bardo
7. Return to the Village – Harold Wheeler
8. Home Training – Betty Baye
 9. The African-American Family: Giving the Gifts of Roots and Wings – Sandra Jowers
10. Family Affair – Kelley Bass Jackson
11. The Place I Call Home – Cynthia Powell-Hicks
12. Loving You, Loving Me – Bishop Paul S. Morton
13. Golden Women of Faith (Originally Titled “A Salute to Black Women”) – Stacey Evans Morgan
14. Mourning a Child’s Choice – Rochelle Riley

Part II: CULTURE
15. Soul Music: The DNA of Our Destiny – A. Scott Galloway
16. Black Like You – Laz Alonzo
17. What It Means to Be Gullah – Ronald Daise
18. The Little Red School House – Bridget Isaac, Ed.D.
19. The African-American Tradition: A Framework for Increasing Educational Outcomes for Our Children – Ontario S. Wooden, Ph.D.
20. Growing Up Creole in Los Angeles – Mark Broyard
21. Urgent Message: We’ve Got a Problem Here. Fortunately, It’s Never Too Late to Do Something About It – Geraldine Westbrooks
22. Soul Survivor – Isaac Hayes
23. BrookVirgiBadian: My Mixed-In Life – Kevin Harewood
24. A Legacy That Lives Through Me – Rani Whitfield, M.D.
25. Bridging the Divide – Otis Moss
26. A Legacy of Mother-Wit – Stacey Evans Morgan
27. I Am … African (No Hyphen! No Hype!) – Tracy Pierre
28. Growing Up African in America – Robert Emeka Mark Ajakwe

Part III: RELATIONSHIPS
29. Love, Marriage, and Struggle (from With Ossie & Ruby: OTLT) – Ruby Dee
30. Living Single – Gilda Squire
31. Modern Black Love: Phase III – Muta’Ali Muhammad
32. Relationships Matter – Felicia “The Poetess” Morris
33. Gone. – Terese Harris
34. Home Is Calling Me: Blacks, Religion, and Multiculturalism – Korie Edwards
35. R(evolution) – David Malebranche, MD, MPH
36. Dear Harold – Hattie Mae Winston
37. The Responsibility – David Horton
38. This Dope Called Hope – Malcolm Jamal Warner

Part IV: COMMUNITY
39. Actionable Pride – Cathy Hughes
40. Not Denise Huxtable – Shelby Powell-Hicks
41. My American Dream – H. Alexander Robinson
42. An Artist’s Colorful Palette – Bret Eileen Wilson
43. The Courage to Dream – William “Billy” Bass  
44. How Long Will We Continue to Allow the Destruction of the Global Image of the Black Woman? – Jasmyne Cannick
45. I’m Black, but Am I Black Enough? – Nadia Lataillade
46. The Complexity of Race and Class – Harold Dawson, Jr.
47. On Freedom – Logan H. Westbrooks
48. Pushed to the Edge: Katrina Stories – Sally Ann Roberts
49. The Black Community: For Sale by Owners – Angelo Henderson
50. A Journey into Manhood – James Worthy, III
51. Pay It Forward – Gil L. Robertson, IV
52. Old Times – Talib Latif
53. Something Extraordinary, Something Unique: It’s Up to You – Thurbert Baker

Part V: SELF
54. The Psychology of Beauty – Beverly Johnson
55. To Thine Own Self, Be True – Bunnie Jackson Ransom
56. Better than Equal: Love, Community and Struggle Forged this Manhood – Anthony Asadullah Samad,  Ph.D.  57. What Happens in the Dark – Michele Edwards
58. Part-Time Thuggin’: Redefining a Generation by Discarding the Thug Swagger – P. Frank Williams
59. Monica, Katrina, Michelle – Ava DuVernay
60. Just Who I Am – Joseph R. Whitfield
61. Staying True to Your Dreams – Tasha Smith
62. History Informs Who I Am, or How I Narrowly Escaped Backslapping – Iona Morris
63. A Black Male Teen in America – Bernard Harrison
64. Comfortable in My Own Skin – Michelle Falconer
65. Black Like Me? – Denise McIver
66. Finding My Niche – Allycin Powell-Hicks
67. A Multicultural African – Victoria Rowell
68. Why Not? – Gerald S. Brooks
69. By Any Other Name – Hasna Muhammad
70. Black Enough for Me – Donald K. Sherman
71. I Am a New Afrikan – Dee Robinson
72. Little Black Girl … In an All-White World – Candi Carter
73. Memo to Myself … I Can Grieve Now – Christopher Cathcart
74. Short Cuts: A Hairstory – Regina Robertson
75. Didn’t You Get The Memo? African Americans Come In All Shades! – Chandra Thomas
76. Calm within the Storm – Max Siegel

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