Final draft: Table of Contents, approx 500 pages
Table of Contents
Acknowledgment
In Memoriam
Introduction Dr. Nathan Hare
Chapter One
Transcendence
Of Conundrums and Quagmires
Dear Parents
Love Letter to Gay and Lesbian Youth
Racism in America: the Grand Denial
Imagine a Black Nation!
Black nationalism, flower children and the summer of love
Transcend the low information vibration
Talk at San Francisco State University, Davey D’s Hip Hop Class
The revolutionary who never came in from the cold: Talk with University
Of California, Merced, students, Kim McMillan’s class on radical theatre
Revolution against fear
Romanticism/Idealism
Left/Right Paradigm
Every day is a holy day
Why are North American Africans Reactionary
US Violence--level the playing field--everybody pack!
Children and the national security of the united states
Sectarianism
Whiteness and Communal suicide
How to stop violence in the Pan African hood; reply by Rudolph Lewis
The Black Woman is God: from Sarah to Serena
Last Rites of Muhammad Ali
Chapter Two
Obama Drama
Pull yo pants up fada prez
Excuse me, Mr. Prez
Fictional interview with Prez Obama
Fictional Prez Obama speech to Muslims
On Prez Obama’s fake speech to Muslims
Fictional Prez Obama’s speech on Afghanistan
Chapter Three
Reviews
Sisyphus Syndrome, a Jazz Opera by Amiri Baraka
Black Panther, an Afrofuturist film in the Myth-Science tradition of Sun Ra
Addendum to Black Panther review: A psycholinguistic deconstruction of the Arabic word Nisa or Woman
Black Panther pre-review
Django
Sun Ra Arkestra at SF Jazz Center
Maestro Michael Morgan’s Oakland Symphony Notes on Vietnam Concert
Mama at Twilight, Death by Love, a play by Ayodele Nzinga
Film Fences, based on the August Wilson drama; reply by Dr. Abdul Alkalimat
Maestro Michael Morgan’s Oakland Symphony Black Panther Concert
Lifer, the Glen Bailey Story, a play by Ayodele Nzinga
Black Odyssey, a play by Marcus Gardley
Chapter Four
The Black Arts Movement (BAM)
Marvin X Driving Miss Libby
BAM 50th Anniversary Celebration at Oakland’s Laney College
BAM Wish List
Letter of invitation to join BAM 27 City Tour
Abstract for the BAM 27 City Tour
BAM Speakers Bureau
Straight Outta Oakland
BAM Baby Mayor Ras Baraka and the Newark, New Jersey, Police Model of Symbiosis
Chapter Five
Black Arts Movement Business District (BAMBD)
Oakland City Council approves BAMBD, January 19, 2016
Symbiosis of Poets and Politicians
Black Bourgeoisie Art and Opportunism
Culture Pimps and Ho’s in the BAMBD
Economics in the BAMBD
BAMBD Billion Dollar Trust Fund
How the BAMBD Billion Trust Fund will be allocated
BAMBD Meets Carmel Developers
Letter to Carmel Developers
Afrocentric Design of the BAMBD, A Talk with Architect Fred Smith
Toward Non-violence in the BAMBD
Confidential Notes that ain’t confidential; reply by Oakland City Council President Lynette McElhaney
Letter of Apology to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her reply
Call for United Front at Oakland City Hall Black History Celebration
Chapter Six
The Cross and Lynching Tree: Assassination of Editor Chauncey Bailey
Who killed Chauncey Bailey?
Between the Devil and Deep blue sea
A Shakespearean Tragedy
OPD Gang
Chauncey and Malcolm X
Fake News Chauncey Bailey Project
Chauncey’s last story
Chapter Seven Endgame