West, Cornel. <br/><br/>
Restoring hope :  conversations on the future of Black America / 
Cornel West ; edited by Kelvin Shawn Sealey. 
 - Boston, Mass. :  Beacon Press,  c1997. 
 - xx. 226 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> "A project of the Obsidian Society." 
<br/><br/>Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Preface by Cornel West -- Introduction by Kelvin Shawn Sealey -- Harry Belafonte -- Bill Bradley -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- The Reverend Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., and the Reverend Dr. James M. Washington -- Wynton Marsalis -- Patricia Williams -- Haki Madhubuti -- Maya Angelou -- "Catch the fire" by Sonia Sanchez -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- The obsidian society. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0807009423 (cloth) 9780807009420 (cloth) 0807009431 (pbk.) 9780807009437 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>97021797 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--Social conditions.<br/>African Americans--Conduct of life.<br/>African Americans--Interviews.<br/>Celebrities--United States--Interviews.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--Social conditions--1945-
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E 185.86 .W4385 1997