


Summary: "There are no simple answers, only oversimplified ones. Blacks - The Other L-Word - The 41st Acre - The Good Ol' Days of Slavery - Forgetting Where We Came From. Al's Big Score - King, for a Day - Beautiful Struggle: An Interview with Talib Kweli - The Stamp of Disapproval - What Black People Should Know By Now - The Road Ahead of Barack Obama - The Tragedy of Colin Powell - Malcolm: The Unknown - The Genius of Harold Cruse, 1916-2005 - The Truth about Rosa Parks - Seeing Coretta - Auburn Avenue Blues - Hanging Curve: Barry Bonds as Tragic Hero - The Good Example - The Devil and Dave Chappelle - Past Imperfect - The Millionth March - Willie Lynch Is Dead (1712?-2003) - The Case of the Disappearing Negro - The House Negro Blues - Ghosts of Tuskegee - OutKasts and Indians - Brown v. Ore: Requiem for a Neighborhood Badass - The Last Race Man - Blood at the Root - Rev.

Contents: Troubling Waters - Nation-Time: Cotton Comes to Washington - 41 Shots - White Negro Please: Eminem's Race Blues - The World Is Yours - The Hoodrat Theory - The Quagmire Blues - The Cosby Show - Fear Factor - Terror in Black and White - Six in One Hand - On the Stroll: Pimping Three 6 Mafia - Out of Time (Brian Barber's Idlewild) - The Trouble with Harry - Pimp-Slapping Oprah (Or We Still Wear the Mask) - The Hater's Ball - What Happens in Rio - First Person - My Daughter, Once Removed - Seeing Double - Two-fifth & Hollis - The More Things Change - Black-Owned - Kindred's Soul: Words with Octavia Butler - Lifecycle of a Butterfly - The Killing Fields: Notorious B.I.G.
