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Preface: Origins / by Nikole Hannah-Jones
1619. The white lion / poem by Claudia Rankine
Democracy / by Nicole Hannah-Jones 1662. Daughters of Azimuth / poem by Nikky Finney
1682. Loving me / poem by Vievee Francis
Race / by Dorothy Roberts
1731. Conjured / poem by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
1740. A ghazalled sentence after "My people... hold on" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740 / poem by Terrance Hayes
Sugar / by Kahalil Gibran Mohammad
1770. First to rise / poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
1773. proof [dear Phillis] / poem by Eve L. Ewing
Fear / by Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander
1775. Freedom is not for myself alone / fiction by Robert Jones, Jr.
1791. Other persons / poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts
Dispossession / by Tiya Miles 1800. Trouble the water / poem by Barry Jenkins
1808. Sold South / fiction by Jesmyn Ward
Capitalism / by Matthew Desmond
1816. Fort Mose / poem by Tyehimba Jess
1822. Before his execution / poem by Tim Seibles
Politics / by Jamalie Bouie
1830. We as people / poem by Cornelius Eady
1850. A letter to Harriet Hayden / monologue by Lynn Nottage
Citizenship / by Martha S. Jones
1863. The camp / fiction by Darryl Pinckney
1866. An absolute massacre / fiction by ZZ Packer
Self-defense / by Carol Anderson
1870. Like to the rushing of a mighty wind / poem by Tracy K. Smith
no car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails / poem by Evie Shockley
Punishment / by Bryan Stevenson
1898. Race riot / poem by Forrest Hamer
1921. Greenwood / poem by Jasmine Mans
Inheritance / by Trymaine Lee
1925. The new Negro / poem by A. Van Jordan
1932. Bad blood / fiction by Yaa Gyasi
Medicine / by Linda Villarosa
1955. 1955 / poem by Danez Smith
1960. From behind the counter / fiction by Terry McMillian
Church / by Anthea Butler
1963. Youth Sunday / poem by Rita Dove
1963. On "brevity" / poem by Camille T. Dungy
1965 Quotidian / poem by Natsha Trethewey
1966. The panther is a virtual animal / poem by Joshua Bennett
Healthcare / by Jeneen Interlandi
1972. Unbought, unbossed, unbothered / fiction by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
1974. Crazy when you smile / poem by Patricia Smith
Traffic / by Kevin M. Kruse
1984. Rainbows aren't real, are they? / fiction by Kiese Laymon
1985. A surname to honor their mother / poem by Gregory Pardlo
Progress / by Ibram X. Kendi
2005. At the Superdome after the storm has passed / poem by Clint Smith
2008. Mother and son / fiction by Jason Reynolds
Justice / by Nikole Hannah-Jones
2020. Progress report / poem by Sonia Sanchez.