Contents -- Dedication / Opening Meditation -- Shout Outs -- Introduction -- To Be Men First, Then Fathers: Realizing Progressive Black Masculinities: An Introduction -- An Interview with Davey D. -- Freestyle Fatherhood -- What Is a Man? -- Baba -- Work and Travel -- Love, Lessons, Learning, and Leadership -- From Education to Get Money: The Challenge of Parenting in and Beyond the Hip-Hop Generation -- What Kind of Place is This?: A Black Father Raising His Sons in White Suburbia -- A Moment of Clarity -- Jazz, Hip-Hop, and Dad in My Subconscious -- The "Pursuit" of Meaning -- An Interview with Talib Kweli -- My Son' s Imaginary Friend -- The Black Hair Matrix: How Jada Pinkett-Smith Saved My Daughter's Self-Esteem -- Down the Aisle, Walkin' The Walk -- Poems by Saddi Khali -- Truth and Reconciliation -- Do the Sons Bear the Sins of the Father? -- G-Daddy: A Father 's Rage -- A Grandfather's Delight -- Who's The Man? -- An Interview with Rhymefest -- Because Of My Father . . -- The Old Man -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING.