My people: five decades of writing about Black lives

Foreword / Nikole Hannah-Jones --

Part I: Toward Justice and Equality, Then and Now. Dispute Center Opens in Harlem --

After-School School for Black Youngsters In Search of Heritage --

Black Activist Sees New South: Lewis Seeks Funds to Help Enroll More Voters --

Blacks Are Developing Programs to Fight Crime in Communities --

Economist Finds Widening in Black-White Income Gap --

Fighting Racism in Schools --

More Negroes Vacation as Barriers Fall --

Panthers Indoctrinate the Young --

Police Seek "Bridges" to Harlem --

Talking to Young People About Trump --

Teaching the Civil Rights Movement --

Today's Horrors Are Yesterday's Repeats --

Urban League Director Accuses the Press of Ignoring Blacks --

On the Case in Resurrection City --

Part II: My Sisters. 2 Black Women Combine Lives and Talent in Play --

200 Black Women "Have Dialogue" --

Black Women Getting Job Help --

Black Women MDs --

Civil Rights Pioneer Ruby Bridges on Activism in the Modern Era --

Many Blacks Wary of "Women's Liberation" Movement in U.S. --

New NAACP Head: Margaret Bush Wilson --

Poets Extol a Sister's Unfettered Soul --

Shirley Chisholm: Willing to Speak Out --

The Woman Who Will Judge Oscar Pistorius --

Unlimited Visibility --

Part III: Community and Culture. 7,000 Books on Blacks Fill a Home --

An Entrepreneur's Trucks Bring Southern Soul Food to Harlem --

Church in Harlem Plays Vital Role in Community --

How Black-ish Unpacks Hard Topics with Humor and Nuance --

New Museum Traces Black Stage History --

Street Academy Program Sends School "Walk-Outs" to Colleges --

The Corner --

The Professor --

Woody Strode? He Wasn't the Star but He Stole the Movie --

Roots Getting a Grip on People Everywhere --

Harlem a Symphony for Orchestra --

Part IV: A Single Garment of Destiny. A Rainy Day in Soweto --

America and South Africa, Watching Each Other --

Ethiopia: Journalists Live in Fear of "Terror" Law --

New Party Urged for World Blacks --

School a Beacon of Hope in Nigeria --

The Dangerous Case of Eskinder Nega --

The Third Man --

Revolution in Tunisia and in the African Media --

Violated Hopes --

Part V: The Road Less Traveled. A Walk Through a Georgia Corridor --

A Hundred-Fifteenth-Between-Lenox-and-Fifth --

A Trip to Leverton --

After Nine Years: A Homecoming for the First Black Girl at the University of Georgia --

How the AME Church Helped Build My Armor of Values --

Lifting My Voice --

Oak Bluffs, More than a Region in My Mind --

Taunts, Tear Gas, and Other College Memories --

I Desegregated the University of Georgia. History Is Still in the Making --

Part VI: Honoring the Ancestors. A Love Affair That Lasted for Fifty-Six Years --

Black Muslim Temple Renamed for Malcolm X --

Columbia's Overdue Apology to Langston Hughes --

Remembering John Lewis and the Significance of Freedom Rides --

Mandela's Birthday and Trayvon Martin's Loss --

Postscript: Julian Bond --

The Death of a Friend Inspires Reflections on Mortality --

When I Met Dr. King --

Nelson Mandela, the Father --

Epilogue: Reasons for Hope amid America's Racial Unrest.