Riot / Gwendolyn Brooks -- From slavery to Rodney King: continuity and change / Tony Martin -- Rodney King and Dred Scott / Alfonso Pinkney -- The Los Angeles rebellion : seizing the historical moment / Anderson Thompson -- How do we rage safely? Some thoughts about racism and the psychological consequences of being Black in America / Vivian Verdell Gordon -- Crossover justice / Nathan Hare and Julia Hare -- The symbolism, logic and meaning of "justifiable homicide" in the 1980s / Frances Cress Welsing -- Missing movement, missing fathers : the culture of short lives and low expectations / Haki R. Madhubuti -- Violence, doublespeak and the American ruling elite / Bakari Kitwana -- How the L.A. uprising will affect the '92 election / Stan West -- Rebellion in Los Angeles : the crises of racism and capitalism / Ron Daniels -- America's poem, or, 81 seconds and 56 blows / Mwatabu S. Okantah -- The Los Angeles rebellion : class, race and misinformation / Charles E. Simmons -- What Los Angeles means : "Negroes are lynched in America" / William M. Mandel -- The ABCs of violence : the impact of the Rodney King affair on Black children / Donna Williams -- Postscript to the Los Angeles riot : Atlanta and the crisis of Black leadership / Tiffany Patterson -- A luta continua : "It was either this or nothing." / Kalamu Ya Salaam interviews Kiini Ya Salaam, a student leader of the Atlanta rebellion -- We who believe in freedom / Pearl Cleage -- The lesson of Rodney King / Michael Bradley -- From these black and brown streets : L.A. revisited / Luis J. Rodriguez -- South Central : some reflections / Mari Evans -- Somewhere in L.A (cartoon) / Tim Jackson -- This is America / Terry McMillan -- Let freedom ring / Bell Hooks -- L.A. 1992 : race, class and spiritual poverty in the American empire / Bartley L. McSwine -- Black must be beautiful again / Bebe Moore Campbell -- Heat wave / Joyce Ann Joyce -- Bloods/Crips proposal -- And in the mean time : final words / Haki R. Madhubuti.