The Tradition / by Jericho Brown
Introduction / by Jesmyn Ward
Part I: Legacy
Homegoing, AD / by Kima Jones
The Weight / by Rachel Ghansah
Lonely in America / by Wendy S. Walters
Where Do We Go from Here? / by Isabel Wilkerson
"The Dear Pledges of Our Love": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
White Rage / by Carol Anderson
Cracking the Code / by Jesmyn Ward
Part II: Reckoning
Queries of Unrest / by Clint Smith
Blacker Than Thou / by Kevin Young
Da Art of Storytellin' (a prequel) / by Kiese Laymon
Black and Blue / by Garnette Cadogan
The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning / by Claudia Rankine
Know Your Rights! / by Emily Raboteau
Composite Pops / by Mitchell Jackson
Part III: Jubilee
Theories of Time and Space / by Natasha Trethewey
Far: Notes on Love and Revolution / by Daniel Jose Older
Message to My Daughters / by Edwidge Danticat.