1975-

Two African-American Harvard professors reflect on the challenge issued by NAACP co-founder W.E.B DuBois to the formally educated, to help and serve the less fortunate of their race. Includes the complete text of DuBois's essay, The Talented Tenth, with his own critique, and biographical information on the influential leader.

Explores the reasons behind racial disparities in America and how race influences attitudes and behaviors and what role it will play in social conditions in the future.

Examines the life of African-American intellectual Cornel West, describing his childhood and education, and discussing his career as a college professor, his interest in music, and his efforts to support African-Americans and work toward better race relations.

The author discusses the politics of race in America; looks at a variety of controversial issues, including the dangers of rap music, gun control, and gentrification; and argues that these topics cannot be understood outside the underlying social, cultural, and political tensions in which they exist.

Provides a collection of essays that examines how White American culture consistently and repeatedly takes aspects of African American culture for definition of their own.

Challenges African-Americans to play a stronger role in world peace, and denounces the United States government for making money off of war.