Shared prayers, mixed blessings / Best of friends, worlds apart / Which man's army / Who gets to tell a Black story? / limited partnership / At a slaughterhouse, some things never die / When to campaign with color / Reaping what was sown on the old plantation / Growing up, growing apart / hurt between the lines / minority quarterback / Guarding the borders of the hip-hop nation / Why Harlem drug cops don't discuss race / Bricks, mortar and coalition building / Getting under my skin / 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 -- New York Times poll on race : optimistic outlook but enduring racial division.