Part one. That lovin' feeling: poems: Wedding night / A. Van Jordan
A black wedding song / Gwendolyn Brooks
Autumn poems / Nikki Giovanni
Kwame Alexander ; Kupenda / Kwame Alexander
Untitled / E. Ethelbert Miller
Nonfiction: Lamu lover / Doreen Baingana
After she left / Will Bester
Loving Johnny Deadline / Lisa Page
One hundred days of bliss / Sonsyrea Tate Montgomery
A shared history / W. Ralph Eubanks
My own happy ending / Marita Golden
Fiction: Chinaberry / Tina McElroy Ansa
The history of the world / Veronica Chambers
Coming clean / Nicole Bailey-Williams
An act of faith / David Anthony Durham
Barking in tongues / Kenneth Carroll
Wilhelmina / Jonetta Rose Barras
The story of Ruth / Victoria Christopher Murray
A river to the moon / Anthony Grooms.
Part two. Ties that bind: poetry: Why I will praise an old black man / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Acts of love / Kwame Alexander
Nonfiction: When there's trouble at home / Lonnae O'Neal Parker
At its best / Tracy Price-Thompson
Becoming a grandmother becomes me
Learning the name dad / Reginald Dwayne Betts
My African sister / Faith Adiele
Isaiah 9:6 / Brian Gilmore
Grandpa Dutstun / Simone Bostic
Silence...the language of trees / Abdul Ali
Two cents and a question / L. A. Banks
Love is a verb / Kim McLarin
Missing you / Pearl Cleage
From Finding Martha's Vineyard / Jill Nelson
Love lessons / Patricia Elam
The heart does go on / Debbie M. Rigaud
Fiction: Geraldine's song / Felicia Pride
Be longing / Stacia L. Brown
Why we jump / William Henry Lewis.
