Foreword / by David Altshuler
Genetic gumbo : Branford Marsalis and Harry Connick Jr.
The long arc of freedom : John Lewis and Cory Booker
What's in a name? : Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada
Redemption : Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon
The children of Abraham : Rick Warren, Angela Buchdahl, and Yasir Qadhi
From the Old World to the New : Robert Downey Jr. and Maggie Gyllenhaal
Shadows : Samuel L. Jackson, Condoleezza Rice, and Ruth Simmons
Crossings : Margaret Cho, Sanjay Gupta, and Martha Stewart
Neither slave nor free : Wanda Sykes, John Legend, and Margarett Cooper
In the footsteps of conquistadors : Michelle Rodriguez, Linda Chavez, and Adrian Grenier.