Restoring hope: conversations on the future of Black America

Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Preface by Cornel West

Introduction by Kelvin Shawn Sealey

Harry Belafonte

Bill Bradley

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The Reverend Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., and the Reverend Dr. James M. Washington

Wynton Marsalis

Patricia Williams

Haki Madhubuti

Maya Angelou

"Catch the fire" by Sonia Sanchez

Contributors

Acknowledgements

The obsidian society.