Table of Contents:
  • For the sake of people's poetry
  • South Africa : bringing it all back home
  • Many rivers to cross
  • Problems of language in a democratic state
  • Case for the real majority
  • Report from the Bahamas
  • Love is not the problem
  • Black folks on Nicaragua : "leave those folks alone!"
  • Nicaragua : why I had to go there
  • Life after Lebanon
  • The difficult miracle of Black poetry in America, or, Something like a sonnet for Phillis Wheatley
  • Black people and the law : a tribute to William Kunstler
  • In our hands
  • The blood shall be a sign unto you
  • An address to the students of Columbia University during their anti-apartheid sit-in
  • Nobody mean more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan
  • White Tuesday
  • Moving beyond the enemy : Nicaragua and South Africa.