Introduction / Joseph Lelyveld
Shared prayers, mixed blessings / Kevin Sack
Best of friends, worlds apart / Mirto Ojito
Which man's army / Steven A. Holmes
Who gets to tell a Black story? / Janny Scott
A limited partnership / Amy Harmon
At a slaughterhouse, some things never die / Charlie LeDuff
When to campaign with color / Timothy Egan
Reaping what was sown on the old plantation / Ginger Thompson
Growing up, growing apart / Tamar Lewin
The hurt between the lines / Dana Canedy
The minority quarterback / Ira Berkow
Guarding the borders of the hip-hop nation / N.R. Kleinfield
Why Harlem drug cops don't discuss race / Michael Winerip
Bricks, mortar and coalition building / Mireya Navarro
Getting under my skin / Don Terry
Removing the filter : unmediated conversations about race
Writing about race (and trying to talk about it)
Knowing your subject, knowing yourself : journals from the writers and photographers
Appendix: The New York Times poll on race : optimistic outlook but enduring racial division.
